From the musical “Criss-Cross”, 1926.
Words by Anne Caldwell and Otto Harbach.
Music by Jerome Kern.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Every play in days of yore
It had to tell a Sweet Cinderella tale
With tears and sobs galore
About a sad girl, a never glad girl
Now the wise ones seem to say
They want a smart girl
A win-your-heart girl
So they think I’ve had my days
But I am here to say
Cinderella is still the part
The wide, wide world’s own sweetheart
Refrain:
Cinderella girl, timid and afraid
Thrilled by the fancy that love is a pearl
Meant to be worn by a beautiful maid
Out to win the heart of a duke or earl
Tender, slender, ever dependable
Cinderella girl