A popular song from 1946.
Words by Bernard Lentz.
Music by Bob Reed and Bernard Lentz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Two men talking bus’ness in a neighborhood bar
Were having a drink and a friendly cigar
When there entered the daughter of one of the men
Who said that her pa must come home with her then
She announced it was orders she had from her ma
But this was the answer she got from her pa
Chorus
Don’t bother father while he’s at the bar
He’s engaged in a bus’ness transaction
If the bit deal goes through
It will be both to you
And your mother a great satisfaction
To father ’twill mean a financial success
A lovely new home and a car
So run tell your mother we’re having another
And don’t bother father while he’s at the bar
- The deal that was made in the bar on that day
Gave the father a start on prosperity’s way
The fam’ly is rich now, the daughter is grown
She’s married and now has two kids of her own
Let this be a lesson to wives near and far
And bother father while he’s at the bar
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: