A popular song from 1937
words and music by Will Grosz and Jimmy Kennedy
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
I know a village where love charms are in the air
That is where romance makes an early start
Down in the village there they all have daughters fair
As you go to school you lose your heart
Chorus
There were ten pretty girls at the village school
Picture ten village belles at a village school
Cute and sweet, short and tall, and a boy loved them all
But you can’t marry ten pretty girls
There were ten pretty girls and I’ll tell you this
That the boy’s biggest thrill was to steal a kiss
But it don’t mean a thing playing “kiss in the ring”
‘Cause you can’t marry ten pretty girls
Now five were blondes and four brunettes
And one was a saucy little red head
The girls grew up, the boy left school
And at twenty-one he wedded the saucy little red head
Oh, that one pretty girl at the village school
Here’s what she taught the boy at the village school
Kissing girls may be fun but your heart picks on one
So you can’t marry ten pretty girls
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: