I WANT A GIRL
(Just like the girl that married dear old Dad)
Words by William Dillon, Music by Harry Von Tilzer (1911)


When I was a boy, my mother often said to me,
Get married boy and see, how happy you will be.
I have looked all over, but no girlie can I find,
Who seems to be just like the little girl I have in mind.
I will have to look around until the right one I have found.

(Chorus)
I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old Dad,
She was a pearl and the only girl that Daddy ever had.
A good old-fashioned girl with heart so true,
One who loves nobody else but you.
I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old Dad.

By the old mill stream there sits a couple old and gray,
Though years have rolled away their hearts are young and gay.
Mother dear looks up at Dad with love light in her eye.
He steals a kiss, a fond embrace, while evening breezes sigh;

(Chorus)