This song is about as silly and inconsequential as they come. If it was a parody of something else, or a satire, that would explain a lot.

You can hear this song at YouTube. This is my transcription.


I'M A LITTLE PRAIRIE FLOWER
Words and music by Leslie Sarony and Leslie Holmes. ©1937.
As sung by The Two Leslies.

[Leslie Holmes sings the words in parentheses. Leslie Sarony sings the rest—I think. That is, unless I have them switched.]

1. (Why were you born so beautiful? Why were you born so small?)
Why was I born so beautiful? Why was I born at all?

CHORUS: Oh, I'm a little prairie flower,
Growing wilder ev'ry hour.
Nobody cares to cultivate me,
So I'm as wild as wild can be.
(He's as wild can be.)

2. (His wildness is a thing to which there seems to be no stop.)
Last night I smacked a jelly just to hear the thing go flop.

3. (To sing The Village Blacksmith at the party he arose.)
I sung the song so nat'rally, the sparks flew from my nose.

4. (Away from two big hooligans today he had to dash.)
I hid behind some broken glass and whispered, "Crash, crash, crash!"

5. (The girls give him bananas and they say he's rather cute.)
For I'm a little devil when I'm full of passion fruit.

6. (Now once he met Mae West and she said he was not so hot.)
She kissed me once and then she stuck me in a flower pot.

7. (His girl sent him a pansy as a valentine, you see.)
I sent her dandelions and now she won't speak to me.

8. (His bloom has gone; he's run to seed; for others he'll make way.)
So like a good old soldier I must gently fade away.


[* The song WAHOO by Cliff Friend has the lines: "I'm just like a prairie flower, growing wilder by the hour." Coincidence?]