A 1916 popular song.
Words Grant Clarke.
Music by Fred Fischer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Nobody ever sings about the bad girls
Because the bad girls are sad
And everybody sings about the good girls
Because the good girls are glad
Till you’ve been around ’em once or twice
You can’t tell the naughty from the nice
Chorus
There’s a little bit of bad in every good little girl
They’re not to blame
Mother Eve was very good
But even she raised Cain
I know a preacher’s daughter
Who never orders water
There’s a little bit of bad in every good little girl
They’re all the same
2. I had a dream i went to see the devil
There was the devil to pay
He said i’m awful busy on the level
I said the devil you say
Why are you so busy tell me why
He replied and winked his other eye
Chorus
There’s a little bit of bad in every good little girl
They’re not to blame
Though they seem like angels in a dream
They’re naughty just the same
They read the good book Sunday
And snappy stories Monday
There’s a little bit of bad in every good little girl
They’re all the same
Sung here by Fred Feild: