A popular song from 1924
Words and music by Gilbert Wells, But Cooper and Fred Rose
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’ve got a girl, a wonderful girl
She’s the sweetest one in town
You can search for miles around
But no one can be found like this one
She has a smile that will open
With a certain little way
And ev’ry time that I get near her
I look at her and say
Chorus
Red hot mamma, Red hot mamma
You’re the one I need
Red hot mamma
You’re some charmer, yes, indeed
I claim that you should be
In the Follies hot tomales
You have a pair of eyes
Just like old Svengalis
I confess that you possess
The sweetest charm in town
And unless I miss my guess
The boys all follow you around
You make a music master drop his fiddle
Make a bald headed man
Part his hair in the middle
Red hot mamma, Red, hot mamma
Sweetest girl in town
- I’ve got a plan, a marvelous plan
That I figured out last night
You just let me put you right
That never have I been as clever
As when I thought I’d purchase a ring
For her pretty little hand
And then instead of her initials
I’ll have it monogrammed
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: