From the musical comedy “The Beauty Shop”, 1914.
Words by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf.
Music by Charles J. Gebest.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. In school they tell you figures do not lie
Perhaps it is their duty
But ask the girls who come in here to buy
Ten dollars worth of beauty
As each peach crop emerges from my shop
The men stare in an odd way
The work we do is very much in view
Most any day on Broadway, on Broadway
CHORUS
Saturday afternoon on Broadway
When the matinees are out
Curly girlies everywhere
Girlies dark and girlies fair
Central Park to Union Square
There’s girlies all about
Nary a curl but comes from my shop
Complections that will wear off soon
It is just a grand way, gaud way, Broadway
Still it’s nice on Saturday afternoon
2. Sometimes a girl comes tripping in my store
So fat she scarce can toddle
Before she’s through her figure’s taken for
A nineteen-fifteen model
When I was shown to our old ladies home
They cried out, “Please restore us”
When I had done those ladies every one
Got jobs in Ziegfeld’s chorus, on Broadway