(We’ll Have To Pass the Apples Again)
A popular song from 1916
Words by Chas. McCarron
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Gerd Westendorp:
Lyrics
- Everybody loves a girl who’s modest
Everybody loves a girl who’s shy
When a girl is modest and retiring
You can bet she’ll always get by
Modest began in the garden of Eden
In every 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 every mother’s daughter
Wears dresses any shorter
We’ll have to pass the apples again
- Just suppose that every girl was modest
Just suppose that every girl was shy
There would be no dust when days are windy
To blow right in the naughty 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 hesitate
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 by Vancha March: