Featured in the 1906 production of “Marrying Mary”
Words by Cecil Mack
Music by Chris Smith and Silvio Hein
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. There’s a scandal in the neighborhood
And it’s all ’bout Julie Brown
It seems her long lost cousin, Jeremiah
Had lately arrived in town
When Julie’s “feller” came to call
That Sunday at her home
He found the pair a sitting there
Jes’ a spooning in the gloam
The sight made him so riled
He started home at once
But Julie said, “I’m s’prised at you
Don’t go act like a dunce”
Chorus:
Why he’s a cousin of mine, just a cousin of mine
You’re liable for to see him here any old time
Jes’ like a bee you’re all the time a buzzin’
‘Tain’t no harm for to hug and kiss your cousin
I haven’t seen Jerry, the last ten years
You know that’s a mighty long time
He’s mother’s sister’s angel child
He’s a cousin of mine
2. When she had explained her relationship
He replied “It may be so”
But he don’t look like a thirty second cousin
That I met a week ago
She smiled at him quite innocently
And blushed up to her hair
Then said, “If you don’t want him ’round
I will tell him so, my dear”
She joined her cousin’s side
And as they strolled away
He heard him ask, “Who is that freak”
And heard his Julie say