(Oh! Pretty Papa! Oh! Pretty Papa!)
A 1916 popular song.
Words by Walter Hirsch.
Music by Spencer Williams.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Down old Mobile way in a cabaret
There sits ragtime Lew
He can show you how to Blue on that piano
Any night at all Miss Lucinda Hall
Drifts into the place
With a smile tells him to Blue on that piano
Maybe she’ll start to sigh
Maybe she’ll start to cry, pleadingly she’ll say
Chorus
Honey, don’t play me no Op’ra
Play me some blue melody
I don’t care nothin’ ’bout Carmen
When you play that harmony
Oh! that’s it, Honey Babe
Oh, won’t you play that strain again
Oh Pretty Papa, Oh, Pretty Papa
It sure do tantalize
Lay right on those piano keys
I feel that feelin’ way down in my knees
‘Cause when you play the Blues
I’m right in Paradise
- Not so long ago Little Sadie Snow
Thought she’d call on Lew
And she asked to hear him Blue on that piano
He began to play, she began to sway
Before he was through
All the folks just got the Blues from that piano
Each time he’d try to stop
Somebody else would hop up to him and say
Sung here by Vancha March: