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Thread #102462 Message #2076504
Posted By: Joe Offer
14-Jun-07 - 02:55 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'A handsome man stepped under the transom
Subject: Lyr Add: HER MOTHER NEVER TOLD HER
I don't know if we're going to find the "transom" version. Here's the version from Songs for Swingin' Housemothers as Her Mother Never Told Her:
Her Mother Never Told Her (Let Her Sleep Under the Bar)
On a cold winter evening the guests were all leaving, O'Leary was closing the bar. When he turned and he said to the lady in red: "Get out you can't stay where you are!" She wept a sad tear in her bucket of beer As she thought of the cold night ahead; When a gentleman dapper stepped out of the phone booth And these are the words that he said:
"Her mother never told her The things a young girl should know, About those dashing young college boys, And how they come and go (Mostly go). Age has taken her Beauty And sin has left its sad scar. So remember your mothers and sisters, boys, And let her sleep under the bar."