(An old time tune)
A novelty waltz song from 1921
Words and music by Henry Burr and Ray Perkins
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Michael McCoy takes the greatest of joy
In the songs of the days long ago
He hears “Annie Rooney” and nearly goes looney
The tune of it tickles him so
His daughter Mary sings like a canary
The popular songs of the day
Poor Michael goes crazy and every few days he
Gets up enough courage to say
Refrain:
Sure now stand up and sing for your father
An old time tune
Please stop that trash that you sing
Morning, night, and noon
Oh I’m sick of all these ditties
About moon and spoon and June
So will you stand up and sing for your father
An old time tune
(Counter melody for 2nd chorus:)
She’s my Annie, I’m her Joe
She’s my sweetheart, I’m her beau
Soon we’ll marry, never to part
Little Annie Rooney, she’s my sweetheart
- Mike has a craze for recalling the days
When a lyrics was made to be sung
His daughter’s delight is to run ’round at night
Hearing singers with only one lung
She has a voice but the songs of her choice
Seem to be just the latest in Jazz
She’ll sulk and she’ll pout when her dad balls her out
In a way that an Irishman has