A 1921 popular song.
Words by Cliff Hess and Howard Johnson.
Music by Milton Ager.
Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Back in my home town
I know a kid who went around
With all the little boys, making noise
She was known as the village clown
She had beautiful curls
But she never played with the girls
Chorus
Ev’rybody knew she was a “tomboy”
Dressed up in overalls of blue
She’d romp around
She never played with any doll
But how that kid could throw a ball
And ev’ry wagon she’d find
You’d see her draggin’ behind
She’d always skin her little knees
And tear her stockings
The way she’d shinnie up the trees just like a squirrel
Once she went swimming with the boys and she tanned her face
Then her mother tanned her in another place
Tomboy, ev’rybody called her “Tomboy Girl”
- All the folks would claim
That she could play most any game
And how she used to fight, scratch and bite
She could make all the boys look tame
With her devilish tricks
She got into many a fix
Chorus
Ev’rybody knew she was a “tomboy”
Dressed up in overalls of blue
She’d romp around
At Auntie’s sliding down the stairs
Her dresses got so full of tears
And when they’d send her to bed
She used to stand on her head
They used to box her little ears
And how they’d scold her
Each time she’d steal a pair of shears
To cut her curls
One day she took her father’s razor just imagine that
And tried to shave the whiskers on the old tomcat
Tomboy, ev’rybody called her “Tomboy Girl”
Sung here by Fred Feild: