From the musical fantasy “Chin-Chin”, 1914.
Words by John L. Golden
Music by Ivan Caryll
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. I’m the happiest Lad in all the Flow’ry Kingdom
A Miracle has come into my life
I’ve seen the Girl I’ve ever sought
The Girl of whom I’ve ever thought
The Ideal one, I mean to make my wife
Of course I’ve dallied in “The Path of Flowers”
Where Lotus lips and Almond eyes are fine
Like every other lad I’ve wasted hours
But now the straight and narrow path for mine
And so I say, without a sigh
For the girls I’ve known in the days gone by
Chorus
Good Bye Girls, I’m through
Each Girl that I have met
I say Good Bye to you
Without the least regret
I’ve done with all flirtation
You’ve no more fascination
There’s but one to whom I’m true
Good Bye, Girls
Good Bye, Girls, I’m through
2. I have often read in poems and romances
That some day in some way, if we but wait
The one we seek both far and wide
The one for whom we’ve ever sighed
Will come to us ‘Tis so decreed by fate
And so it’s all come true as in a story
A Yankee Princess like the golden sun
Has risen in my sight in all her glory
And now there’ll never be another one
And so I say, without a sigh
For the girls I’ve known in the days gone by
Sung here by Fred Feild: