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Thread #122704   Message #2695428
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Aug-09 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me!)
Subject: Lyr Add: MA! (HE'S MAKING EYES AT ME!)
From the sheet music at Indiana University:

MA!
Words, Sidney Clare. Music, Con Conrad.
(New York: Fred Fisher, Inc., 1921)

1. Little Lilly was oh so silly and shy,
And all the fellows knew
She wouldn't bill and coo.
Every single night some smart fellow would try
To cuddle up to her, but she would cry:

CHORUS 1: "Ma, he's making eyes at me.
Ma, he's awful nice to me.
Ma, he's almost breaking my heart.
I'm beside him.
Mercy! Let his conscience guide him.
Ma, he wants to marry me,
Be my honeybee.
Ev'ry minute he gets bolder.
Now he's leaning on my shoulder.
Ma, he's kissing me."

2. Lilly was so good, everybody could tell.
You'd never see her roam.
She'd always stay at home.
All the neighbors knew little Lilly too well,
For when the boys would call they'd hear her yell:

CHORUS 2: "Ma, he's making eyes at me.
Ma, he's awful nice to me.
Ma, he's almost breaking my heart.
If you peek in,
Can't you see I'm goin' to weaken.*
Ma, he wants to marry me,
Be my honeybee.
Ma, I'm meeting with resistance.
I shall holler for assistance.
Ma, he's kissing me."

[*I have corrected the obvious misspelling "weakin'". Also, as always, I have standardized punctuation.—JD]