. . . Can’t a Man Love More Than One?
A popular song from 1912.
Words by Alfred Bryan.
Music by Geo. W. Meyer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There’s just one thing seems to puzzle like the dickens
Why! do they call all the little girlies chickens
When her fellow tries to flirt
Then her little heart is hurt
Chickens don’t mind if their lovin’ mister Rooster
Don’t call around just as often as he useter
They don’t ever raise a fight
If he happens to stay out at night
Chorus
If a rooster can love so many little chickens
Can’t a man love more than one?
If the little chickens don’t complain
Can’t the little girlies act the same
Ev’ry rule so they say should work the other way
It’s just as fair to me as you
If a rooster can love ten
Can’t each little chicken then
Love a dozen little roosters, too?
- If mister Rooster should go out entertaining
You never hear any chickens start complaining
They don’t ever fly the coop
They don’t leave him in the soup
But if a man calls upon his pretty cousin
Wifey gets angry and starts right in a buzzin’
She don’t seem to realize
That a man never tells any lies
Sung here by Vancha March: