So’s Your Old Man

(How’d you get that way?)
A college wail from 1926
Words and music by Charles McCord and Perry Bradford

The sheet music:

So’s Your Old Man – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Sos_Your_Old_Man – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Johnny Jones a college lad
    Was always on the go
    He hung his high hat everywhere
    But never had much dough
    He sent home for cash one day
    “Dear Dad I’m broke,” he said
    His daddy rushed an answer
    And this is how it read

Chorus
So’s your old man
That’s what they all say
So’s your old man
How’d you get that way?
Seems your favorite college wail is
Pa! Pa! I’m out of kale
So’s your old man
How’d you get that way?

  1. Johnny took his girl one night
    Out to a cabaret
    And when the waiter brought the check
    His purse had walked away
    She said call your daddy up
    Perhaps he’ll help us out
    And so he telephoned him
    And heard his daddy shout

Chorus
So’s your old man
That’s what they all say
So’s your old man
How’d you get that way?
Pa you did not send the kale
So now I am here in jail
So’s your old man
How’d you get that way?

Chorus
So’s your old man
That’s what they all say
So’s your old man
How’d you get that way?
Got no clothes so help me please
I am down to my “B. V. Ds”
So’s your old man
How’d you get that way?