From the musical “Sweet Inniscarra”, 1897.
Words and music by Chauncey Olcott.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- A letter now I’ll write to Kate
The dear one of my heart
The girl who’ll one day be my wife
Until we’re doom’d to part
For she’s the dearest girl
In all old Ireland I know
But how can I write Mister Fly
If you will bother so
Now little Fly if your dear heart
Were lost in love like mine
Why you would pity, not molest me
With this buzz of thine
Chorus
Now go away for goodness sake
Why don’t you let me be
I’m writing to my sweetheart
Go away now don’t you see
How can I write if you’ll insist
To fly about me so
Now go away oh, Mister Fly
I’ll catch you now I know
- Now there I told you that I’d catch you
You’d not list to me
I wish it was my darling Kate
I held upon my knee
I’d hold her there so tight and fast
And say before she’d go
My prisoner you’ll have to be
Until my fate I know
But if she were to be your judge
She’d quickly set you free
So, for the love I have for her
That will my verdict be