From the musical “The Tik-Tok Man of Oz”, 1913.
Words and music by Victor Schertzinger.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
For a girlie of my size
I have not grown very wise
As to what a girl should do
When she’s in love
Though I’ve always had my beaux
There are many things, you know
They do diff’rent when you’re
Someone’s turtle dove
Take for instance how a fellow
Looks for hours in the eyes
Of some pretty girlie
Then he sighs, and sighs, and sighs
Swears he never loved another
Tells a lot of pretty lies
And he knows he can’t afford to pay
For half the things he buys
Oh! it’s all in the game, I guess
And I really, really might as well confess
Refrain
I want to be somebody’s girlie
I want to be somebody’s Pearlie
I want to feel two arms around me
Arms that are really glad they’ve found me
I want someone to hug and kiss me
When I’m away someone to miss me
Of ev’rything grand in this wide, wide world
I want to be somebody’s girl
Sung here by Vancha March: