A popular song from 1923
Words and music by Roy Turk and J. Russel Robinson
The sheet music:
Lyrics
- I want to tell you all about a certain person
I mean about a man who never needs rehearsin’
For playin’ the part of a fickle vampin’ fool
‘Cause as a rule he meets a gal
And just as soon as she’s a “goner”
He’s sure to have another one around the corner
Who swears that he’s true
But between me and you
He’s true to quite a few
Chorus
That’s Two-Time Dan
He’s just a two-time man
He falls in love with brand new mammas every day
And there ain’t one time when
He doesn’t two-time them
He’s got a anything such?
He gets his dues
‘Cause breach of promise blues
Are takin’ all of Two-Time Danny’s ones and twos
When he was young I hard he even was worse
Folks say he two-timed his nurse
That double-crossin’, apple saucin’ man
Called Two-Time Dan
- He doesn’t even know the meaning of a steady
For new sweet mammas you can bet he’s always ready
He’ll love ’em one day
Then he’ll bid each one “good bye”
Without a sigh
You’ve surely heard of Mister Heinz’s fifty-seven
Well Danny’s got that many mammas plus eleven
He’ll treat ’em so nice
They are in paradise
Then he’ll turn cold as ice
Chorus
That’s Two-Time Dan
He’s just a two-time man
He falls in love with brand new mammas every day
And there ain’t one time when
He doesn’t two-time them
He’s got a anything such?
He never knew
What it meant to be true
He’s like a baby when with some old toy he’s through
Down at the track he won some dough on a horse
By the name of Double Cross
That woman bossin’, money tossin’ man
Called Two-Time Dan
Patter
Meets a gal at nine, kisses at ten
Dines at ‘leven, Boy, and then
Proposes at twelve, marries at one
Works as fast as a shot from a gun
In the afternoon, their honeymoon
Back at eight, with his mate
And at nine, goin’ fine
But at ten then, it’s someone else again