Historic Sheet Music Collection

Title

Oh Helen!

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1919

Comments

A comedy stuttering song

Dedicated to Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Paramount star

By Chas. R. McCarron and Carey Morgan writers of "I'm Glad I Can Make You Cry" I'm Crazy about My Daddy" "Wait and See" etc.

Sung successfully by Wellington Cross
Can also be had for your phonograph or player piano

50¢

Jos. W. Stern & Co., 102-104 W. 38th St. New York

Copyright MCMXVIII by Jos. W Stern & Co.

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Lyrics

VERSE 1
Willie Meek tho’ good at grammar,
When he’d speak he’d always stammer,
And when he tried,
He’d be mortified,
He’d call on a girl named Helen, most evry day,
He’d start sighin’ like a dyin’ calf and then he’d say.

CHORUS 1
Oh H-H- Hel Oh H-H- Hel Oh Helen please be mine,
Your f-f- feat your f-f- feat your features are divine,
I s-s- swear I s-s- swear I swear I will be true,
Oh D-D- Dam Oh D-D- Damsel I love you.

CHORUS 2
Oh H-H- Hel Oh H-H- Hel Oh Helen please be mine,
You s-s- simp you s-s- simp you simply are divine,
You m-m- mud you m-m- mud you meddle me it’s true,
Oh D-D- Dam Oh D-D- Damsel I love you.

VERSE 2
Helen’s daddy knocked him silly,
Ripping mad he went for Willy,
Thought him profane,
Nearly went insane,
But when Willy Meek explained it,
It was all right,
Now her father doesn’t bother, when he says each night.

CHORUS1

CHORUS 2

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