From the musical “The Grand Parade”, 1929.
Words and music by Edmund Goulding and Dan Dougherty.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- It is certainly very surprisin’
What a wee bit o’ woman can do
If her lips are a bit tantalizin’
And her eyes are a real Irish blue
Sure, it’s right you are if you’re surmisin’
Molly dear, that I’m thinkin’ of you
Chorus
Molly! Molly! I’m so melancholy
When I’m far away from you
Molly! Molly! Ev’rything is jolly
When I see your eyes of blue
Sure, my lucky day was
The day you were born
The one rose that God made
Without any thorn
Darlin’ Molly! Oh, by gee, by golly
I’d give up my life for you
- Oh, my heart’s never been so unruly
It is yearnin’ for you all the day
And I’m worried and frettin’ unduly
Every hour that you are away
But for you, dear, I’m tellin’ you truly
Life to me would be empty and gray
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: