Oh Mabel

A popular song from 1924
Words by Gus Kahn
Music by Ted Fiorito

The sheet music:

Oh Mabel – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Oh_Mabel – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. With the coming of the evening star
    Someone with a second-hand guitar
    Stands beneath a window close to mine
    Bragging how his lonely heart can pine
    ‘Till the little sunbeams come to peep
    He keeps right on singing in my sleep

Chorus
‘Neath your window I am waiting
Oh Mabel, Oh Mabel
Come out and meet me
Let me, let you know I love you so
Mabel, so Mabel, you know
Your father shows me out
And throws me out, but Gee
I never let those little trifles worry me
He’s up against the champion Romeo
Mabel, Oh Mabel, be mine

  1. In the summer, in the winter, too
    Here’s a bird who thinks it’s time to coo
    Tho’ it’s six and seven eights below
    He keeps telling her he loves her so
    Frozen ears don’t seem to mean a thing
    Tonsilitis makes him want to sing

Chorus
‘Neath your window I am waiting
Oh Mabel, Oh Mabel
Come out and meet me
In the sleet and slush and hail and snow
Mabel, Oh Mabel, I know
Your father knocks me out
And locks me out but then
You’d better tell him doctor
Here I am again
When he finds I’m the champion Romeo
Mabel, Oh Mabel, be mine

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: