A popular song from 1919.
Words and music by J. Russel Robinson, Al. Siegel, and Billy Curtis.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Everybody’s heard the news
Everybody’s got the blues
How’re we gonna stand the strain
When Mister Prohibition comes to reign
Up ’till now I’ve been in doubt
But I’ve just figured something out
I got this from a Broadway Miss
There’s intoxication in a kiss
Chorus
So if kisses are intoxicating like they say
I should worry ’bout the “bone dry” law
I’ll date up all the gals from Maine to ‘Frisco Bay
I’ll have the greatest time you ever saw
I’ll never draw a sober breath the live long day
And I’ll be happy as a king
For if kisses are intoxicating like they say
Prohibition you have lost your sting
- No more hanging ’round cafes
Hello soda fountain days
Then it’s goodbye cabaret
When Mister Prohibition comes to stay
‘Stead of saying, “have a drink”
Say “have a kiss” and then you wink
Imagine all the coin you’ll save
Pretty Mamma, make your eyes behave
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: