From “Leave It To Jane”, 1917
Words by P. G. Wodehouse
Music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Mamah often used to tell me how imprudent
It is for girls to let their fancies roam
And go out walking evenings with a student
Instead of washing dishes safe at home
But I never thought my Percy would deceive me
He seemed as good and faithful as a lamb
And now dog-gone it! If he doesn’t leave me
The double faced horn-swoggling little clam
Refrain
I will always love you dearie
Morning, night and afternoon
And my heart will be so weary
If we don’t get married soon
Oh, I fell for all that old time junk
Them nights beneath the moon
Poor prune!
- Now I can’t enjoy my meals, my heart is broken
I don’t know when I’ve felt so awful wild
Ah, since those crool remarks of his was spoken
I’ve turned into a woman from a child
It gets my goat for fair when I remember
Them walks we used to take at close of day
And how it used to fan Love’s burning ember
When he to me these tender woids would say
Refrain
I will always love you dearie
With a live that nought can kill
And my heart will ne’er grow weary
Nor my passion get a chill
Yes, I fell for all the hot air stuff
That Percy used to spill
Poor pill!
Sung here by Vancha March: