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Thread #16696   Message #3880125
Posted By: GUEST,Daddyherb
04-Oct-17 - 12:15 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Take Your Fingers Off It
Subject: RE: Origin: Take Your Fingers Off It
I have Sheet Music for "Take Yo' Fingers Off It", words and music by Ambrose Bryan, published in 1926 by Elliot-Chilton & Co., 1595 Broadway N.Y.C.
With Ukulele arrangement by Prof. La Fontane
Katy King had a diamond ring and it always caused her lots of woe
Who would be the lucky one to get it, All the fellows wanted to know.
Sammy Wright called her one night He saw the ring and lost his head
When he went to view it, Put his finger through it, This is what she loudly said.

Take your finger off it, Don't you dare touch it, cause it don't belong to you
Taint no use to crave it, Mama's gonna save it, For the man whose love is true.
Now there's a dozen others, Who want it just as bad, The jeweler said its precious, so it can't be had.
Take your finer off it, don't you dare touch it, 'cause it don't belong to you. I mean, 'cause it don't belong to you.