A popular song from 1925
Words by Henry Creamer and Joe Schuster
Music by Leon Flatow
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Little Minnie Hood, seventeen and good
Loved her little boy friend Little Tommy Wood
Today her people went away
So, she called him on the telephone to say
Chorus
Oh say! can I see you tonight
There’ll be nobody home
We’ll be there all alone
Oh say! can I see you tonight
Call around about nine
Everything will be fine
Ma’s in the country so far far away
Pa’s gone to Brooklyn to buy a load of hay
Hey! hey! can’t you see it’s all right
Oh say! can I see you tonight
- Tommy was so shy, very very shy
And he said, “I’ll see you maybe by and by
“Min” waited quite a while in vain
Then she called him up and begged him once again
Chorus
Oh say! can I see you tonight
There’ll be nobody home
We’ll be there all alone
Oh say! can I see you tonight
Call around about nine
Everything will be fine
We’ll spoon together and when we are through
You’ll play the records and I’ll fix “tea for two”
Hey! hey! can’t you see it’s all right
Oh say! can I see you tonight
Chorus
Oh say! can I see you tonight
There’ll be nobody home
We’ll be there all alone
Oh say! can I see you tonight
Call around about nine
Everything will be fine
Grandpa has motored to where he was born
He’s got a Lizzie that can’t get back ’till morn
Hey! hey! can’t you see it’s all right
Oh say! can I see you tonight