A popular song from 1913
words by Gus Kahn
music by Egbert Van Alstyne
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’ve a secret I would like to tell to you
Only you, just to you
It’s about a girl with tender eyes of blue
Her love for me is fond and true
Tho’ we hug and kiss, we’ve never been engaged
She and I, she and I
For I’ve been told that I’m too old
And here’s another reason why
Chorus
I’m in love with the mother of my best girl
Her mother is in love with me
Of course, I love the girl
This sweet and precious pearl
Still her mother’s kisses set my heart a-whirl
If I had to choose between the two I love
I’d lead a most unhappy life
For the girl you see is only three
And the mother of the girl’s my wife
- Sometimes with my little girlie on my knee
In my dreams, idle dreams
Comes a lover bold to steal her heart from me
And she’s forgotten me it seems
It may bring me pain to think she may forget
But I know, yes, I know
Her mother, dear, will still be near
I’ll always be her one best beau
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: