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Thread #14344   Message #626885
Posted By: toadfrog
12-Jan-02 - 10:59 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Butcher boy
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Butcher boy
I am more familiar with this "Butcher Boy," on Levy

Title: Oh! Ma-Ma! (The Butcher Boy). Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: By Rudy Vallee and Paolo Citorello. Based on the popular Italian song success "Luna Mezzo Mare." Additional choruses by The Andrews Sisters.
Publication: New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., 1928.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice, guitar
First Line: Mama, dear, come over here, and see who's looking in my windows
First Line of Chorus: Oh! Mama! Oh! Get that man for me
Performer: Dick Robertson
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: unattrib. photo of Robertson; Immermann
Advertisement: ads on inside center margins and on back cover for Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. stock
Subject: Portraits
Subject: Cartoons
Subject: Peddlers
Subject: Food
Subject: Windows
Subject: Courtship
Subject: Love
Subject: Marriage
Call No.: Box: 158 Item: 164

Mama, dear, come over here, and see who's looking in my window.
It's the butcher boy and oh! he's got a package in his hand!
"Tell me why he winks his eye whenever he comes by my window"?
"Daughter, Daughter he's in love and you're in love, and love is grand"!

Oh! Mama! Oh! Get that man for me
Oh!Mama! How happy I will be!
Tra-la-la, and cheery beery be!
If I'm going to marry, it's the butcher boy for me!


I last heard that tune at the wedding in The Godfather