A popular song from 1911.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Cover by John Frew.
Copyright ©14 Jan 1911.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
I’m in love like a dove
Got no time to work-a with da pick and shov’
Feel so gay that I say
If I die tomorrow, honest boss
I no feel sorrow
‘Cause I feel so fine all the time
Got-a such-a feeling like da champagne wine
Since I met-a my sweet Annettea
Much love I get-a for mine
Chorus:
My gal, she’s-a got-a such-a figure
So big, maybe it’s a little bigger
Small feet just-a like-a Japaneese-a
Big waits, it takes me seven days to squeeze ‘er
My gal, she’s a dream-a, peach-a, cream-a
Sweet to beat the band and
When you see a miss
Who got-a shape-a like-a diss
Dat’s-a my gal
2. My gal’s pop he’s nice wop
He’s-a got-a much-a swell-a barber shop
Once he said when we wed
If the business is rotten
He’s a shave-a me for not’in’
And he’s got some gal what
Man-a cure my fingers every day for not’
Feel so glad that I can’t get mad
And I feel yet better than that