From the 1922 musical “The Gingham Girl”
Words by Neville Fleeson
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Lyrics
I’d like to tell you of the story
The story of a cavalier
He played an old guitar in sunny Spain
Long before Alfonso’s reign
He made a hit with all the ladies
They’d come to him from near and far
And I’ve heard it said that the girls were led
By the strains of his guitar
Refrain
Plunk, plunk, plunk, plunk, plunk
Was all that you could ever hear that fellow play
Plunk, plunk, plunk, plunk he kept a plunkin’
Till he stole their hearts away
And every night ‘neath that old Spanish moonio
How they would spoonio
While he would plinkety plunko
“It was the bunco”
Plunk, plunk, plunk, plunk
He never had to say a word of love at all
He knew the way to make the Senoritas fall
There was a rumor in the court
That the queen of Spain
Went to visit him one night
In the pouring rain
Just to hear the plunk, plunk, plunk
Of his old guitar