(And a Ukelele Baby, and Leave the Rest To Me)
A popular song from 1926
Words and music by Lew Brown and Gene Williams
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Don’t know how to act with girls who talk Chinese
Don’t know how to ask ’em for a hug and squeeze
Couldn’t even be a sheik with some sweet Greek
Don’t know how to romance with a Spanish pet
Don’t know how to get ’em with a castanet
I’ll admit I’m kind of slow, but oh! Oh!
Chorus:
Give me a Ukelele, and a Ukelele baby
And with my little ukin’, you kin leave the rest to me
Give me an hour daily with my little Ukelele
And I would like to bet ya, she’ll forget her family
Somehow I know, oh! oh!
She’ll be glad she met me, Oh! oh! oh!
Just you wait and see
Give me a Ukelele, and a Ukelele baby
And with my little ukin’, you kin leave the rest to me
- Used to practice every day but couldn’t win
Any little baby with a violin
Cause I always seemed to be a bit off key
Playin’ my piano was an awful frost
I could have a harem with the girls I lost
Couldn’t make a hit somehow, but now, Wow!