A 1908 popular song.
Words and music by Arthur Longbrake.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Ev’rything I try to do
Proves to be an awful blunder
Why I ain’t like others, too
Often causes me to wonder
When I try to do something in the right way
Just as I have seen it done some other day
I’m most always sure to hear somebody say
As they point their finger at me
Chorus
Wrong again, wrong again
If I stand around I’m in somebody’s way
If I make a move I hear somebody say
Wrong again, wrong again
Ev’rything I try I hear that old cry
Wrong again, wrong again
- I grew tired of single life
Thought that I’d try matrimony
Look’d around and found a wife
Now I’m paying alimony
Heard folks say that two could live for just the same
As it costs of one and so I chang’d her name
Hitch’d in double harness with a gal nam’d Jane
Felt as if to Heaven I’d gone
Chorus
Wrong again, wrong again
Marriage the balloon which to the sky took me
Divorce the parachute which bro’t me back you see
Wrong again, wrong again
Ev’rything I try I hear that old cry
Wrong again, wrong again
- I went to a ball one night
‘Twas to be a swell affair
Ev’rything came off all right
Some guy copp’d my lady fair
Friends all said go get him you can lick him Jim
You are big and husky while he’s short and slim
Replied I hate to do it I’m too big for him
But I had to please my friends
Chorus
Wrong again, wrong again
Gee, when he let loose I thought a mule kick’d me
Found out afterwards it was Joe Gans you see
Wrong again, wrong again
Ev’rything I try I hear that old cry
Wrong again, wrong again
Sung here by Vancha March: