A popular song from 1905.
Words by William Jerome.
Music by Jean Schwartz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Abner Hemingway, a word with you
Before I say my last adieu
You buncoed me to marry thee
Now to South Dakota I must flee
When at the altar side by side
You certainly just falsified
When you told the parson you’d provide
You falsified, why man you lied
CHORUS
So farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway
I’m gwine to quit this domicile today
Just cut out “babe” and “turtle dove”
I can’t exist on bankrupt love
So farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway
VERSE 2
Abner Hemingway, the ‘stalment man
Backed up this morning with a van
Removed the bed, no words he said
Till a dispossess the sheriff read
The butcher and the grocer too
Are hunting high and low for you
Napoleon met his Waterloo
So have a care, some words am true
CHORUS
So farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway
Brush by, man don’t you get too neglige
From this time on I’m not your wife
I’ve read that book of Simple Life
So farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway