The Flapper

She rules the world today
a 1922 popular song
words and music by Leo Patton & Dan Paulson

The sheet music:

The-Flapper – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

The_Flapper – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. I never pine for a clinging vine
    They never make me fall
    A Broadway Rose with her fancy clothes
    Doesn’t interest me at all
    I’ve studied them from “A to Z”
    And I think you’ll all agree

Chorus
The Flapper rules the world today
No matter what the old folks say
With her woolly muffler, her nifty hat and all
Why there isn’t any doubt she’d make the Springtime fall
She goes to work dressed up in silks
And makes a luncheon out of malted milk
So a Flapper cannot flap around too much before her dinner
She’d hate to make a milkshake of the malted milk within her
Oh the Flapper rules the world today
No matter what they say

  1. The girls from Spain compete in vain
    They’d never stand a chance
    And neither would the English girls
    Nor those from sunny France
    I’ve seen the best of every race
    And I know who sets the pace

Chorus
The Flapper rules the world today
No matter what the old folks say
At the balls and parties, she’s like the queen of hearts
Why she checks her corset just before the dancing starts
She may live on Third Avenue
Up in the Bronx, or out in Harlem, too
But to listen to her line and hear her cute pronounciation
You’d almost swear by gosh she’d had a college education
Oh the Flapper rules the world today
No matter what they say

Sung here by Fred Feild: