Beatrice Barefacts

From the 1903 operetta “Babes in Toyland”.
Words by Glen MacDonough.
Music by Victor Herbert.


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Dear Beatrice Barefacts, a country girl am I
    Next month I’m going down to town
    So tell me how to make a gown of scraps I’ve put by
    I’ve carefully saved up
    A skirt of purple plush
    With this would it be quite in taste
    To wear a yellow velvet waist?
    Your answer quickly rush

Tush! tush! Tush! tush!
Dear Maud you make me shiver
That dress worn on a ferry boat
Would scare away the river

Refrain
Oh, write to Beatrice Barefacts whenever you are in doubt
Oh she will help you out
She’ll put your doubt to rout
The talented Miss Barefacts
She tells a thing or two
In the Perfect Ladies column of the Woman’s Home Magoo

  1. Dear Beatrice Barefacts, I am a nice young man
    I do not drink or smoke or swear
    I tint my nails and bang my hair
    And cards and races ban
    My salary weekly is small, I beg to say
    But I’d no longer dwell alone
    Now would you wed and start a home on eighty cents a day?

Nay! nay! Nay nay!
Dear Claude there’s nothing in it
A home on eighty cents a day
Would last just eighty minutes

  1. Dear Beatrice Barefacts, am I in love or not?
    Since I a certain party saw
    I sleep and smile and eat no more
    But weep an awful lot
    Whenever I meet him I’m frozen to the spot
    My blood goes rushing to my head
    I know my nose turns fiery red
    Can this be Love or what?

Dear me! Dear me!
Louise it is a question
You have a dreadful case of love
Or chronic indigestion


Sung here by Vancha March: