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Thread #98328   Message #3523578
Posted By: Jim Dixon
06-Jun-13 - 04:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Freckle Face
Subject: Lyr Add: FRECKLE FACE (L Scarlett / E Williams)
From the sheet music viewable at the web site of The University of Oregon:


FRECKLE FACE
Words, Leroi Scarlett; music, Edna Williams.
New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co., ©1911.

1. Two little boys loved one little maid:
A dear little miss with her hair in a braid.
One was a nice little good-looking chap.
The other had freckles all over his map.
These little boys were always at strife.
Each said he'd grow up and claim as his wife
The dear little girl with her hair in a braid,
And the nice-looking one to the freckled one said:

CHORUS: Freckle face! Freckle face!
We don't want you around the place.
If I were you, straight home I'd go
And scrub my face with Sapolio.
Freckle face! Freckle face!
Your face is a real disgrace.
You think you're a lot,
But you've only got
A freckle face.

2. Years flew along; the little boys grew,
The good-looking one and the freckled one too,
Each still in love with the dear little maid
Who wore puffs and curls and no longer a braid.
She wasn't sure which one she would take.
If she chose one, would the other's heart break?
She wasn't quite sure, till she thought of the day
Long ago when she heard the freckled [sic*] one say: CHORUS


[* The last line of verse 2 makes no sense to me as written. Also, the sheet music doesn't say that she chose the freckle-faced boy. I guess you're supposed to infer that.

[I wonder if the recorded version—I assume there was one—was different.]