Since Mother Goes To Movie Shows

A popular song from 1916
Words by Chas. McCarron
Music by Albert Von Tilzer

The sheet music:

Since Mother Goes To Movie Shows – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by Gerd Westendorp:

Since_Mother_goes_to_Movie_Shows – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. We are in an awful stew
    All the cooking we must do
    And the wash and ironing too
    ‘Cause we’ve lost dear mother
    Brush that tear drop from your eye
    There’s no reason you should cry
    Mother darling didn’t die
    She’s hardly ever home
    She says as how she’s busy now
    And goes out if you please
    The fam’ly cat is not so fat
    And Fido’s full of flees

Chorus:
Since mother goes to movie shows
Everything is on the blink
Dishes dirty in the sink
Since mother goes to movie shows
The kitchen’s some disgrace
‘Cause the ice box floods the place
Oh how we’ve missed her
We have no sister
Our hands we blister ironing clothes
We have to eat potato skins
Papa props his pants with pins
Since mother goes to movie shows

  1. When the villian starts to rob
    Hits the hero on the knob
    Mother’s always on the job
    Getting full of fillum
    Things are getting worse each day
    When she sees a photo play
    She comes home and right away
    She thinks that she can act
    Why in her dreams we hear her screams
    We never get a rest
    The other night with all her might
    She jumped on father’s chest

Chorus:
Since mother goes to movie shows
Every morning she is tryin’
To hang on the pulley line
Since mother goes to movie shows
Poor father is a tank
He breaks into baby’s bank
The baby’s bawling
The doctor’s calling
The fam’ly’s all in goodness knows
For its dinner baby wails
But that’s not a job for males
Since mother goes to movie shows

Sung by Vancha March: