You can see the sheet music for this song at The Levy Collection:


DAPPER DAN (THE LADIES MAN FROM DIXIE LAND)
Words by Lew Brown, music by Albert Von Tilzer.
New York: Broadway Music Corporation, ©1911.
Featured with terrific success by Eddie Cantor in the "Midnight Rounders"

1. Dapper Dan was a Pullman porter man on a train that ran through Dixie.
Ev'ryone knew Dapper Dan,
Knew him for a ladies' man:
Never cared to settle down,
Had a girl in ev'ry town.
On the train the whole day long,
You'll hear him sing this song:

CHORUS 1: If I lose my gal in Tennessee,
That won't worry me,
'Cause I've got another honey lamb
Waitin' for me down in Alabam';
And if I lose my gal in Alabam',
I won't feel blue,
'Cause I got one in Georgia that I can march right to.
If I lose my gal in Georgia,
Bet that I won't pine,
'Cause I've got another mamma waiting,
Down in sunny Caroline.
Now I ain't handsome, I ain't sweet,
But I've got a brand of lovin' that can't be beat.
I'm the ladies' man,
Dapper Dan from Dixieland.

2. Dapper Dan was a very handy man on a train that ran through Dixie,
Made the beds and ev'rything.
All you had to do was ring.
If the train stopped anywhere,
There'd be some gal waiting there.
He'd say: "This is one of mine,
And there's others down the line."

CHORUS 2: If I lose my gal in Baltimore,
That won't make me sore,
'Cause I've got one who can fill the bill
Waitin' for me down in Louisville;
And if I lose my gal in Louisville,
I'll never fret,
'Cause I've got one in Mobile that I can go and get.
If I lose my gal in Mobile,
Funny as it seems,
There's another lovin' sweetie waiting,
Down in sunny New Orleans.
I won't let no gal run my life,
'Cause if I lose them all, I still got my wife.
I'm the ladies' man, Dapper Dan from Dixieland.