A popular song from 1907
Words by Harry Williams
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Every day in the year
When the weather is clear
I go out in an automobile
As I spin down the line
With my sweet baby mine
Just imagine how happy we feel
But my grandfather, dear
Looked at me with a sneer
Then he said as his eyes danced with joy
“All your new fangled ways
Are not in it these days
With the way I made love when a boy”
Chorus:
You may talk of your Mollies and trolleys
And your automobile honeymoon
They are all very fine, but if you have the time
There’s a far better way you can spoon
Take a walk to a nice liv’ry stable
Get a horse that you don’t have to guide
You’re at ease, no one sees
You can squeeze all you please
On an old-fashioned buggy ride
- We said, “Granddad, you’re late
You are way out of date
Why, the auto’s the thing of today”
Then we turned on the power
And in just half an hour
We were thirty or more miles away
But there soon came a flash
And a terrible crash
Then we worked on the thing half the night
All the kids on the course
Hollered out, “Get a horse”
And we said, “I guess granddad was right”
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: