(We’ll have to pass the apples again)
A popular song from 1917.
Words by Chas. McCarron.
Music by Albert Von Tilzer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Ev’rybody loves a girl who’s modest
Ev’rybody loves a girl who’s shy
When a girl is modest and retiring
You can bet she’ll always get by
Modesty began in the garden of Eden
In ev’ry book you’ll find
I’ll admit it started in the Garden of Eden
But just bear this in mind
Chorus
Eve wasn’t modest till she ate that apple
That old apple was to blame
The minute that she ate it, she felt humiliated
And hid behind the apple tree till darkness came
If one little apple made the first girl modest
It ought to work now as well as then
Once they only wore a leaf
Clothes are getting just as brief
If ev’ry mother’s daughter, wears dresses any shorter
We’ll have to pass the apples again
- Just suppose that ev’ry girl was modest
Just suppose that e’ry girl was shy
There would be no dust when days are windy
To blow right in the naughy man’s eye
We’d have better business in our marriage market
Each man would surely mate
When they start proposing they can see what they’re getting
That’s why some hasitate
Chorus
Eve wasn’t modest till she ate that apple
That old apple was to blame
The minute that she ate it, she felt humiliated
And hid behind the apple tree till darkness came
If one little apple made the first girl modest
It ought to work now as well as then
Way back in the olden days
Men were fooled by girlie ways
For then we never knew them
But now we see right through them
We’ll have to pass the apples again
Sung here by Vancha March: