ADD: My Little Girl I Love You

Subject: Lyr Req: Oh Little Girl I love you but you're...
From: GUEST,Diana Sedenquist
Date: 15 Nov 03 - 04:32 PM

I'm trying to remember the lyrics to a funny old song that my Dad used to sing. It's a song about a young woman who is preparing to go to bed but before she does she has to take off her wig and her glass eye and her false limbs. Right now I'm remembering just a couple lines from the song:

"You put your glass eye upon the table and your ---- under the bed..."

And the final line is: "Oh little girl, I love you, but you're scattered everywhere."

Thank you for the help.

Diana

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oh Little Girl I love you but you're...
From: Snuffy
Date: 15 Nov 03 - 08:19 PM

Plenty of "dismembered bride" songs in the forum, often sung to "After the Ball was Over", but I don't know any with that last line.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oh Little Girl I love you but you're...
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 12:51 AM

For variations on this theme—which someone called "The Dismantled Bride"—see these songs in the DT:

A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG NYMPH GOING TO BED (1731)
A DANDY FOR NINETEEN YEARS OLD
AFTER THE BALL (Parody)
AMONG MY SOUVENIRS (Parody)
OLD MAID AND THE BURGLAR
SIDE BY SIDE (Parody)
VERY UNFORTUNATE MAN

...and these threads: (Note: Some of these requests were never completely fulfilled.)

Lyr Req: the Old Maid and the Burglar
Lyr Req: She took out her bum glass eye
Lyr Req: Shilling, wooden leg, cant change it
Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)
Lyr Req: Billy Connolly; parody
Lyr Req: Wizz Jones .......humerous song
Lyr Req: Jane Melissy
Lyr Req: old maid and the burglar^^
Lyr Req: burgler boy / Old Maid & Burglar
Lyr Req: Oh Little Girl I love you but you're...

...and these songs embedded in threads that are mostly about something else:

THE DAMSEL OF NINETEEN YEARS OLD
SHADE OF THE OLD APPLE TREE (Parody)

Subject: Lyr Add: MY LITTLE GIRL I LOVE YOU (verse 1)
From: GUEST,Syd Reinarz
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 07:08 PM

Diana is looking for the lyrics from "My Little Girl I Love You." I have a copy on the Bluebird label from the 30's, sung by Curly Williams, orchestra by Jimmie Revard & The Oklahoma Playboys.

"My little girl, you got sleepy, and you went upstairs to bed.
You put your false hair upon the dresser, and your peg-leg under the bed.
You put your glass eye upon the window and your swell teeth on the chair.
My little girl, you know I love you, but you're scattered here and there."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 04:35 PM

Syd: Is that all there is to the song, just that one verse?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Will
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 01:44 AM

Syd,

Thank you so much for knowing the song!

Diana

Subject: Lyr Add: MY LITTLE GIRL I LOVE YOU (verse 2)
From: 12-stringer
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 03:00 AM

The other verse is the "straight" one, sung to the same melody. This was a 1915 pop song, written by Albert von Tilzer, and was a favorite among hillbilly string bands in the 1920s and 1930s. Jimmie Revard's band, the Oklahoma Playboys. is mostly forgotten today but was one of the best western swing groups of that music's Golden Age. They were jazzmen and hot as a six-shooter on Reno Street.

The straight verse goes like this:

My little girl, you know I love you, and I long for you each day
My little girl, I'm dreaming of you, though you're many miles away
There was a time, down in the wildwood, When you promised you'd be true
My little girl, you know I love you, and I'm coming back to you.

Those are the lyrics from the Revard 78. They vary slightly but not significantly from the original set. Revard only does the chorus (straight and parody), not the verse or the interlude riff. The UCSB cylinder preservation site has a free download of a 1915 Edison, and there are a couple of other pop recordings at jazz-on-line.com. Song is very friendly to three-chord guitarists.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 03:01 PM

Another on a similar theme:
Bright Silvery Light Of The Moon (Evening In Roscrae)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST,Denise Barney
Date: 29 Mar 11 - 10:09 AM

My dad use to sing that song to all of the "girls" in our family
the lyrics that I know are....

My little girl, she weighs 260
and everyday she gains a pound
my little girl, you keep on growing
and you're miles and miles around.
You know the lane, down near the wildwood
where you barely could get through
My little girl, you know I love you
and I'm coming back to you.

My little girl, who weighed 260
she went upstairs to go to bed
She layed her false hair upon the dresser
and her peg leg under the bed
She laid her false teeth upon the table
and her false arm in the chair
my little girl you know I love you
but you're scattered everywhere

I ain't a kiddin'
but you're scattered everywhere

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 10:26 PM

don't know if it is the same, but sounds similiar...My little girl, took out her glass eye, and she laid it over there..my little girl, took out her false teeth and she laid them by her hair...my little girl, unscrewed her peg leg, and she laid it on the ground...my little girl how can I love you, when your scattered all aroung.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 01:54 PM

It has been posted at YouTube: MY LITTLE GIRL I LOVE YOU, performed by Jimmie Revard and his Oklahoma Playboys, with vocal by Curly Williams, on Bluebird B-6877-A, recorded 1937.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 02:22 PM

The lyrics to MY LITTLE GIRL by Lewis, Dillon, and Von Tilzer, from 1915, have already been posted by Gene in another thread.

(This is the "straight" song without the dismantled bride theme.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST,dj
Date: 12 Jun 12 - 11:29 PM

My Little girl, you know I love you\
But it happened the night that we wed
You put your wig upon the dresser
And your peg leg under the bed
You put your teeth upon the mantle
and your glass eye in a chair
my little girl you know I love you
but you're scattered everywhere.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Sep 13 - 06:35 PM

But there is one that begins My little darlin' do you remember on the night that we were wed? Then the song has her scattering her glass eye, her wooden leg, her false teeth around the room. But the last line is is definitely, "my little darlin' I want to squeeze you, but you're scattered everywhere. The music is almost like the My Little Girl I Love You fast tune. Does anyone remember that?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Mar 14 - 12:45 AM

I remember this version:

Oh little girl, when you get tired and you go upstairs to bed.
put your false teeth in some water, throw your peg-leg under the bed.
put your glass eye on the table and your wig hat on the chair.
Oh little girl, you know I love you, though you're scattered here and there."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST,link to this song
Date: 26 Sep 14 - 07:47 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjSagjR34_4

If you follow this link it goes to the song on you tube...hope it helps

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 18 - 08:41 PM

My dad sang
My little girl when we were married’
The very first night we were wed
You put your glass eye up on the mantle
And your peg leg down under the bed
You put your false teeth on the table
And your wig down on the chair
My little girl you know I love you
But you’re scattered everywhere!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Aug 18 - 07:34 PM

Oh little girl when you get sleepy and you go upstairs to bed
You put your wig upon the dresser




Ends with oh little girl you know I love you though you're scattered every where!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST,Susan
Date: 25 Aug 18 - 04:37 PM

My Grandpa sang me a similar song to the tune of ‘My little girl, you know I love you’:

My little girl, she has a glass eye,
That she rolls across the floor.
My little girl, she has a wooden leg,
That she hangs behind the door.
My little, she has some false teeth,
That she puts them on the chair.
My little girl, you know I love you,
But you’re scattered everywhere!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 19 - 04:02 PM

My little girl, she was so sleepy
She went upstairs to go to bed.
She put her glass eye up on the mantle
And her peg leg under the bed.
She put her false teeth upon the table
And her wig upon a chair.
My little girl you know I love you
But you’re scattered everywhere.

My Mom’s version

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Sep 19 - 04:00 PM

My little girl, when she got sleepy
Went upstairs and closed the door.
The put her glass eye on the table
And her peg leg on the floor.
She put her false teeth in a glass of water
And her wig upon a chair.
My little girl, I'd like to love you.
But you're scattered everywhere.

That was my mother's verson.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Oct 19 - 10:42 PM

Oh little girlie, you know I love you
As you wander up to bed
You put your false teeth upon the dresser
And your peg leg by the bed
You put your glass eye on the window
And your false hair on the chair.
Oh little girlie, you know I love you,
But you're scattered everywhere.

In the late 1950's and early 60's, my dad sung this to me as I wandered up to bed.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 10:51 PM

My little girlie took out her glass eye and she laid it on the shelf
My little girlie took off her peg-leg and she stood it by its self
My little girlie took out her false teeth and she put them in a cup
My little girlie took off her false hair and she laid in on a chair
My little girlie you know I love you but you're scattered everywhere

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 10:28 PM

Little darling u know I love you
Although u went upstairs to bed.....
You put your false eye upon the window and your peg leg under the bed
You put your false teeth upon the dresser and your wig upon the chair......
My little darling , u know I love you, though you’re scattered everywhere ??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Little Girl I Love You (Curly Williams
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 21 - 10:11 PM

I know this is an old thread, but I’d like to post the version my dad sang to me as a child. He would be 100 years old this year.

My little girl, she weighs 300 and she gains a pound each day.
My little girl, if you don’t stop gaining, you’ll soon be a mile each way.
My little girl, there’s a gate in the backyard that you can’t waddle through.
My little girl, you know I love you, but there’s oh so much of you.

My little girl, she soon gets sleepy, and she goes upstairs to bed.
She puts her false teeth on the mantle, and her wooden leg under the bed.
She puts her glass eye under the pillow, hangs her wig upon a chair.
My little girl, you know I love you, but you’re scattered everywhere.

Subject: ADD Parody: My Little Girl I Love You
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Sep 21 - 03:23 PM

Lee Sartain emailed this one to me:


My Little Girl I Love You (Parody)

Little Girl you got sleepy.
    and you went upstairs to bed
You put your glass eye on the dresser
    and your peg leg under the bed.               
You put your false teeth in the window.         
    And you false wig on a chair
Little girl you know I love you
    But you're scattered everywhere

Same tune:

It's called a tap room in Pennsylvania
    In Manhattan plush lined club
It's called a gin mill in old Chicago
    And in London It's a bloomin' pub
They serve you cocktails in ritzy Newport
    And it's boilermakers in Squeedunk
But no matter where you are
    When you stagger from the bar
You're just plain old-fashioned drunk.

Subject: ADD: My Little Girl I Love You
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Sep 21 - 03:53 PM

There's a 1937 recording by Jimmie Revard and His Oklahoma Playboys here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSV8lQanPo

MY LITTLE GIRL, I LOVE YOU
(as recorded by Curly Williams (singer), orchestra by Jimmie Revard & The Oklahoma Playboys, 1937)

My Little Girl you got sleepy,
    and you went upstairs to bed
You put your false hair up on the dresser
    and your peg leg under the bed.
You put your glass eye up on the window.
    And your swell teeth (?) on the chair
My little girl, you know I love you
    But you're scattered here and there.

[Instrumental Break]

My little girl, you know I love you,
    and I long for you each day
My little girl, I'm dreaming of you,
    though you're many miles away
There was a time, down in the wildwood,
    Where you promised you'd be true
My little girl, you know I love you,
    and I'm coming back to you.

Note: This is a parody of a song titled "My Little Girl," which was published in 1915. Words by Sam M. Lewis and Will Dillon. Music by Albert Von Tilzer.

https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/153/161

And note that the Levy Sheet Music Collection now has recordings, at least of this song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: She took out her bum glass eye
From: GUEST,Nowon77
Date: 08 Oct 21 - 11:12 PM

My little girl when she got sleepy, went upstairs and closed the door.
She put her glass eye on the table and her peg leg on the floor.
She put her false teeth in a glass of water and her wig upon the chair.
My little girl I'd like to love you, but you're scattered everywhere!

Subject: RE: ADD: My Little Girl I Love You
From: GUEST,Sammy Bowen
Date: 27 Apr 22 - 10:39 PM

My little darlin said she was sleepy, went upstairs to go to bed. Laid her false teeth in the water bowl and took her hair from atop her head. Laid her glass eye on the mantle and put her cork leg in a chair. My little darlin I'd like to love you but your scattered everywhere...

Subject: RE: ADD: My Little Girl I Love You
From: GUEST,GUEST Gary
Date: 22 Apr 24 - 10:05 AM

My sister used to sing this song when I was eight years old

My little honey, my little darlin' went upstairs to go to bed,
She put her glass eye on the table and her woodin' leg under the bed,
She put her false teeth in a saucer, and her red wig on a chair,
My little honey, I'd like to love you but you're scattered everywhere!