Historic Sheet Music Collection

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1926

Comments

Title Page

Words by Marry Tilsley. Music by Everett Lynton

Irving Berlin Inc. Music Publisher, 1607 Broadway New York

Extra Choruses. Page 5.

Copyright 1926 by Irving Berlin Inc., 1607 Broadway, New York City

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Maggie dear just won’t go out alone,
Seems that she must have a chaperone,
When we go out,
No matter where we’re bound,
There is always somebody around.

[Verse 2]
Maggie dear is very sweet to me,
When she’s near I’m happy as can be,
I long to say,
“I want you for my own”
But I never can see her alone.

[Chorus Verse 1]
She brings her father, her mother, her sister and her brother,
Oh I never see Maggie alone. One night while we were out walking,
And got ‘em by the dozens,
I never see Maggie alone,
And if I ‘phone her,
Say to her sweet,
Where shall we meet.
Supposing that we eat,
She brings her father, her mother, her sister and brother,
Oh I never see Maggie alone.

[Chorus Verse 2]
She brings her father, her mother, her sister and her brother,
Oh I never see Maggie alone.
One night while we were out walking
And she got tired talking,
She invited me up to her home,
I turned the lights down,
There were too bright,
Oh what a night.
When I turned on the light,
There was her father, her mother, her sister and her brother,
Oh I never see Maggie alone.

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