From the 1930 film “Bright Lights”
Words by Grant Clarke
Music by Harry Akst
The sheet music:
Lyrics
He’s known in college as “play boy”
Not full of knowledge, but say, boy
He does okay and then some
He walks around in a coma
He’ll never get a diploma
His mind’s gone on the bum
He don’t know his Latin
It sounds to him like Greek
He knows his silks and satin
‘Cause he’s the campus sheik
History to him isn’t history
History to him is a mystery
Hey-hey! He’s not so dumb
Refrain:
Every little girl he sees he wants
And every little girl he wants he gets
And every little girl he gets he pets, “and how”
Got a little book that’s full of names
Oh, what a little book, with names of flames
And think of all the flames
And every dame’s a “wow”
He always keeps professors guessin’
They think he’s insane
Flunks in ever lesson with “janes” on the brain
Every little girl he sees he wants
And every little girl he wants he gets
And every little girl he gets he pets, “and how”
2. He know his figures, that’s certain
He studies figures while flirtin’
He’s not bashful while learning
Spooning is he avocation
He has inside information
With the ladies he’s king
When it comes to schooling
He’s not so very hot
But when it comes to fooling
He fool’s the girls a lot
He’s just a dunce as a scholar
But in a choir, in a parlor
Say, he don’t miss a thing