A popular song from 1914.
Words by Chas. McCarron.
Music by Raymond Walker.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- A certain girl once lived in our home town
With curly hair and great big eyes of brown
If she was dynamited, she’d never get excited
When the other girls would start to clown
She’d frown
She left her home just twenty years ago
She was so slow she took the “B and O”
Chorus
She used to be the slowest girl in town
Never hurried
Always took the longest way around
Never worried
Never know to have a beau
Folks said she was too slow
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, they didn’t know
She never had a single word to say
Very quiet
But she came back home the other day
Caused a riot
With a Paris gown and Paris hat
Nineteen kids and husband fat
And she used to be the slowest girl in town
- Now all the girls she knew when she was young
When they saw her they wished that they’d been hung
Those girls who were so sporty
Are now old maids at forty
To the old hometown too long they clung
Got stung
You’ve heard about the turtle and the hare
How slow old misses turtle she got there
Chorus
She used to be the slowest girl in town
Never hurried
Always took the longest way around
Never worried
Never know to have a beau
Folks said she was too slow
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, they didn’t know
She never had a single word to say
Very quiet
But she came back home the other day
Caused a riot
With a million dollars in the bank
No one but herself to thank
And she used to be the slowest girl in town
Sung here by Vancha March: