A popular song from 1916.
Words by A. Seymour Brown.
Music by Albert Gumble.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. I’ve discovered a great idea
Maybe some folks will think it queer
I’m off swell cafés, through with cabarets
I go home every night
All my family wait for me
To the parlor we go, and my big brother Abel
Moves the parlor table, then we put on a show
Chorus:
And sister Doris plays the Opening Chorus
And brother Lou, he sings a song or two
Pa and Ma get out on the floor
If the Castles ever see them
They’re going to be sore
My sisters are charmers and colored pajamas
And when it’s over we dine
Many guys who think they’re wise
Would be losing both their eyes
At that midnight fall like of mine
2. We do everything up in style
We have everything home worthwhile
We have lots of wine, and the food is fine
What I save pays the rent
All you rounders would stay at home
And enjoy it like me, though
Some of you may doubt it
You’d be wild about it
If you ever could see
Chorus:
When cousin Lulu does the old hula hula
It would make you groan, each movement is her own
All the neighbors say it’s a sin
And I know why they’re complaining
We won’t let them in
And as the show closes my wife she does poses
And Venus looks like a shine
Rockefeller with his dough
Couldn’t put on such a show
As that midnight frolic of mine