A popular song from 1906.
Words and music by Herbert Ingraham.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- While sitting in a park one night
I heard an argument
Between Bill Jones and his best girl
Who was on pleasure bent
She said she thought the Scenic Ride
And the Chute the Chutes were grand
But Bill said he would rather sit
And listen to the band
I laughed till I tho’t I would die
Bill looked kind of mad in the eye
I bet he wished I wasn’t so near
When his girl made this reply
Chorus
Why don’t you spend something else beside the evening?
I tho’t you said that we were going out sight seeing?
Now I do hope that what I say won’t hurt your feeling
But why don’t you spend something else beside the evening?
- ‘Twas just last night in that same park
I sat with my best girl
A list’ning to the same old band
My brain was in a whirl
I only had about ten cents
And of course that’s just carfare
When someone side of me bought wine
I saw ’twas Bill sat there
I tho’t sure that I’d faint away
For Bill he got square on that day
I wished that I could fall thro’ the ground
When I heard my Liza say