A 1914 popular song.
Words by Grant Clarke.
Music by Jean Schwartz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Young Johnny Dunn was twenty one
He liked to dance in each cafe
He liked the ladies, so they say
That’s why he danc’d in each cafe
His daddy’s got an awful lot
That makes it soft for little Dunn
When he said, “Go to work, my son”
Johnny said, “I’m having too much fun”
Chorus
I love the ladies, I love the ladies
I love to be among the girls
And when it’s five o’clock, and tea is set
I like to have my tea with some brunette
I love the ladies, I love the ladies
And in the good old Summer time
When I’m in swimmin’, I love the women
Because it makes the swimmin’ so fine
When I’m in London, Paris, and old Vienna
Or any other town, I get so homesick, homesick
Unliss I’m hearing the rustle of a gown
I love the ladies, I love the ladies
I love the small ones, tall ones
God bless ’em, the world can’t twirl
Around without a beautiful girl
2. To have some fun, young Mister Dunn
Went off to college once again
A college where there’s girls and men
He though he’d learn a lot, and then
A sweet co-ed soon turn’d his head
He burn’d his study books, they say
Threw up his cap and yelled, Hurray”
And they heard him twenty miles away
Sung here by Fred Feild: