My transcription from the recording at YouTube. This song illustrates how adept Jones & Hare were at turning a song that had been written for one singer into a dialogue-duet.


LAST NIGHT ON THE BACK PORCH (I LOVED HER BEST OF ALL)
As sung by Billy Jones & Ernest Hare, (Okeh 4948-B, recorded 8/23/23)

[SPOKEN:][EH:] Hey, Bill, did I ever tell you this?
[BJ:] No. What is it?

[SUNG:][EH:] There's the girl I'm wild about.
[BJ:] Gee, I'm glad I found it out.
[EH:] I'm crazy. [BJ:] You're crazy, without a doubt.
[EH:] I'm just wild about her eyes.
[BJ:] I bet she's wild about your lies.
[EH:] Well she's my honey; she's my pet.
[BJ:] But y'ain't met nothin' yet.

[EH:] I love her in the morning. [BJ:] Do you love her at night?
[EH:] I love her; yes, I love her when the stars are shining bright.
[BJ:] Please tell me: do you love her in the springtime and the fall?
[EH:] Uh-huh, but last night on the back porch I loved her best of all.

[EH:] Ev'ry time that she's alone—
[BJ:] Do you call her on the phone?
[EH:] Uh-huh. I hurry. [BJ:] You worry; you worry so.
[EH:] I'm afraid that I might see
Someone there in place of me.
[BJ:] If you lost her, what woe!
[EH:] I love her, oh, oh, oh!

[EH:] I love her in the morning. [BJ:] Do you love her at night?
[EH:] The first time that I met her, it was true love at first sight.
[BJ:] Please tell me: do you love her in the springtime and the fall?
[EH:] Uh-huh, but last night in the parlor, I loved her best of all.

[SPOKEN][EH:] Ah, Bill, she's a lovely girl.
[BJ:] I should say so, Ernest. Those eyes!
[EH:] Uh-huh!
[BJ:] Those nose!
[EH:] Yes, yes, Bill.
[BJ:] Those lips!
[EH:] Yes, yes.
[BJ:] Those hair!
[EH:] Yes, yes, and those teeth, Bill, they are beautiful.
[BJ:] Yes, the both of them! On the back porch—
[EH:] Nevertheless, Bill—

[SUNG][BOTH:] I love her in the morning and I love her at night.
I love her; yes, I love her when the stars are shining bright.
I love her in the springtime and I love her in the fall,
But last night on the back porch, I loved her best of all.