A popular song from 1917.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Cover Art by Albert W. Barbelle.
Copyright ©27 Aug 1917.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Butterfly, you’re like a butterfly, baby vampire
Thro’ the year, you’re sipping honey here and there
Your love is like a blushing rose
It just comes and goes
Butterfly, you’re just a butterfly,
With your string of helpless beaux
Refrain:
Whose little heart are you breaking now, little butterfly?
Who is the one that you’re shaking now, little butterfly?
Who keeps on ringing
Your telephone, one-two-three-four?
Who keeps on singing
“What do you want to make those eyes at me for?”
Who sends you candy and flowers now, little butterfly?
Spending above what his folks allow
I wonder whose feelings you’re hurting
When he catches you flirting
Whose little heart are you breaking now?
- Seems to me, you’re like a bumblebee, baby vampire
Buzzing ’round, but never settling down, that’s you!
Why don’t you give up stinging hearts?
Don’t you know it smarts?
Taking them and simply breaking them
In a thousand diff’rent parts?
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: