A collegiate fox-trot song from 1932
Words and music by Al Lewis
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt- Payne:
Lyrics
Let us sing about, one without a doubt
Sweetest girl in the land.
“Football” is her middle name. Never misses any game.
Wears the colors of all the schools we love.
Gee! But she’s in demand.
Has a corner on beaus. Almost everyone knows.
Chorus 1
She’s got a halfback at Pennsylvania,
She’s got a quarterback at Yale as well.
She corresponds with an end at Centre,
And a center at Cornell.
She wears a pin of a guard at Harvard,
A Stanford tackle has her in a whirl.
She’s got a sweetheart at ev’ry college,
She’s just an All American Girl!
Chorus 2
She’s got a halfback at California,
She loves a quarterback at Notre Dame.
She threw a tackle at Alabama,
And a Fordham guard’s her flame.
She goes to proms with an Army fullback,
A Navy center has her in a whirl.
She’s got a sweetheart at ev’ry college,
She’s just an All American [intercollegiate All American] * Girl
[* last time]
Patter
Maine, Wisconsin Indian, Illinois and Alabama,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Duke and Georgia Tech.
Michigan and Tennessee and good old Washington and Lee,
And Minnesota, Minnesota,
Soon I’ll be a wreck.
Lovers, you can see she has no lack of them;
Wonder is just how she can keep track of them;
She knows a …
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: