Lucky Jim

. . . How I envy him
A mock ballad from 1896. The latest comic novelty.
Words by Chas. Horwitz.
Music by Fredrick V. Bowers.

The sheet music:

Lucky-Jim – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Lucky_Jim – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

1. Jim and I as children played together
Best of chums for many years were we
I alas, had no luck, was a Jonah
Jim my chum was lucky as could be

CHORUS
Ah! lucky Jim, how I envy him
Ah! lucky Jim, how I envy him

2. Years passed by, still Jim and I were Comrades
He and I both loved the same sweet maid
She loved Jim, and married him, one evening
Jim was lucky, I unlucky stayed

3. Years rolled on and death took Jim away, boys
Left his widow and she married me
Now we’re married, oft I think of Jim, boys
Sleeping in the church-yard by the sea