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Thread #39521   Message #1430248
Posted By: Jim Dixon
08-Mar-05 - 11:51 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Bridget O'Flynn
Subject: Lyr Add: BRIDGET O'FLYNN (WHERE'VE YA BEEN?)
I don't have the tune, but here are the lyrics. I, too, would love to hear what this song sounds like.

Lyrics copied from http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_fwh/book/appendex/Appen1-2.htm (and edited a bit by me)

BRIDGET O'FLYNN (WHERE'VE YA BEEN?)
(Words by Andrew B. Sterling, music by Robert King, copyright 1926, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., New York, NY)

VERSE 1: "Bridget O'Flynn?" "Yes, Mama dear?"
"Was that you sneakin' in? Come over here.
Look at the state of your Sunday clothes!
Look at your shoes and new silk hose!
You've been doin' the Charleston, I suppose.
Bridget O'Flynn, just say your pray'rs.
You'll need 'em when your father comes downstairs.

CHORUS 1: Bridget O'Flynn, where've ya been? Bridget O'Flynn,
This is a nice time for you to come in.
The boyfriend took you for a ride? And did the car break down?
Or maybe you ran out of gas about ten miles from town?
Did you walk home? Look at your shoes! Ain't it a sin?
Faith, your story and your shoes are mighty thin.
I'm tellin' you now just what to do:
If you have any friends that own a canoe,
Don't go near the water, Bridget darlin'."

VERSE 2: "Bridget O'Flynn?" "What is it, Ma?"
"When you get out again, you'll not go far.
Faith, and last night you went far enough,
You and your paint and powder puff!
Just you wait till your father does his stuff.
Bridget O'Flynn, I'd like to bet
That you can tell who owns this cigarette.

CHORUS 2: Bridget O'Flynn, where've ya been? Bridget O'Flynn,
This is a nice time for you to come in.
You went to see the big parade? The big parade, me eye!
Sure no parade could ever take that long in passin' by.
Bridget O'Flynn, tell me the truth. This is your chance.
There was nothin' wrong? You just went to a dance?
Just keep away from the dancin' hall.
There's nobody there worthwhile at all.
That's where I met your father, Bridget darlin'!"

[Recorded by The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones & Ernest Hare); by Billy Murray & Aileen Stanley; and by Jack Kaufman.]