A popular song from 1906.
Words by James O’ Dea.
Music by Anna Caldwell.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. You may rave of society
Simple life is the one life for me
Girls and boys hard at work all week
That’s the society I would seek
Holidaying I like to go
With Mamie, and Jamie, and Floey and Joe
Just to share in their hours of bliss
Helping them warble a ditty like this
Chorus:
Every Saturday afternoon with the one that I adore
Let me go spooning, mooning, love ditties crooning
By countryside and river and shore
I don’t care if it’s rain or shine
If it’s August, May, or June
Just let me roam, roam, down by the foam
On a Saturday afternoon
2. Smart young fellow in outing suit
Shirt-waist girlie with manners so cute
Fares to Spoonerville, two round trips
Oh, how enticing her cherry lips
Shady lanes and delightful walks
If kisses were only like Standard Oil stocks
Monday’s train would bring back from the shore
Someone worth fully a million or more