A popular song from 1908.
Words and music by Fleta Jan Brown.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. There’s a story around and it’s all over town
And begorry the joke of the season
Little Mamie O’Daire was a beauty for fair
Who broke heart after heart without reason
Now young Barney McGee was as green as could be
Just a bashful and countrified jay
But he opened the eyes of those swell Irish guys
When he said, “Mamie’s mine, lads, beginning this day”
When they told pretty Mamie of young McGee
She went into hysterics and said to me
Chorus:
Barney McGee, Barney McGee
Barney McGee’s making sheeps eyes at me
And he follows me around all over town
Wherever I go why it’s Barney I see
When his tongue is the thickest his wits are the quickest
A big Irish lad and faith he’s never sad
O Barney McGee, Barney McGee
Barney McGee’s making sheeps eyes at me
2. Just a week from today is a wedding they say
And Miss Mamie is buying her trousseau
While the lives that she shattered and hearts that she battered
Are thrown aside, why will girls do so?
So at first Mamie laughed, but right now she’s plum daft
And she’s willing to love and obey
And the whole joke is this that the coy little Miss
Is promised to Barney and picked out the day
So the whole town is laughing and poking fun
But she blushes and says, “There is only one”