From the 1920 musical comedy “Jimmie”
Words by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Herbert Stothart
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Peter Stuyvesant came from Holland
And ruled Manhattan a while
Then the bally old Duke of York
Took the jolly old isle
But today the town is owned
By quite a different sort
She’s just a slip of a Tomboy kid
And they call her Jimmie for short
Refrain:
Jimmie, just Jimmie
She’s a chip of old New York
Vagrant and whimmy
A dear little bluffin’ Ragamuffin
One smile from Jimmie
And a host of glooms depart
There’s a Paradise
In those laughing eyes of Jimmie, just Jimmie
She’ll haunt your heart
2. I have tried to think of other things
Some diversion to find
But I’m sorry I must confess
I’ve a single-tracked mind
My poor heart a hopeless prisoner
That will never be free
The smiling face of a Tomboy kid
Is all I ever can see