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Thread #41702   Message #602735
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Dec-01 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: They Always Pick on Me (Murphy/Von Tilzer
Subject: ADD: When I Was Born
But there's more. These lyrics are copied from this page (click) about actress Alice Faye - I take it the lyrics are from her movie Hello Frisco, Hello.
-Joe Offer-


When I was born my pa and ma,
they looked at me and said,"Oh, pshaw!"
The doctor said, "It's a girl...I think."
And pa went out and got a drink.
Then ma said I looked just like pa,
and pa said I took after ma.
Aunt Jane said I looked like a quince
and I've been a stepchild ever since.

Ohh...they always, always pick on me,
they never, never let me be.
I'm so very lonesome, awfully sad.
It's a long time since I've been glad.
But I know what I'll do by and by,
I'll eat some worms and then I'll die
and when I'm gone, you wait and see,
they'll all be sorry that they picked on me.

Now why do they always, always have to pick on me?
Why do they never, never, never let me be?
I'm so very lonesome, awfully sad.
It's a long, long time since I've been glad.
But I know what I'll do mmm by and by,
I'm gonna eat me some worms and then I'll die.
And when I'm gone just you wait and see,
they'll all be sorry, terribly, terribly sorry,
gee they're really gonna be sorry that they picked on me.