GERTIE, THE GIRL WITH THE GONG (Ray Sonin / Ronnie Munro)
HOME JAMES AND DON'T SPARE THE HORSES (Writer Unknown)
NO! NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO! ((Al Sherman / Al Lewis / Abner Silver)

Elsie Carlisle (with Ambrose & His Orch.) - 1935



I'm Gertie, the girl with the gong
And I watch your car speed along
If you do more than thirty, then Gertie gets shirty
And tinkles a song on the gong

Oh, beware when you're driving along
For the Law says that you're in the wrong
If I'm dressed as a Cop and I call you to stop
Oh, I'm Gertie, the girl with the gong

(Musical Break)

(Home James and don't spare the horses)
This night has been ruined for me
(Home James and don't spare the horses)
Oh, I'm ruined as ruined can be

This was in the Gay Nineties
One night, an ace swell affair
She was dressed in her best Sunday bustle
And wore a rat in her hair

Her lover was not tall or handsome
But he was a terrible flirt
He spent the entire evening
Making up to every skirt

Angrily she reproached him
He heeded not at all
So she in her best Sunday bustle
Went flouncing out of the hall

She swept down the steps so majestic
To her footman standing below
And in accent loud and clear
She told him where to go

Oh, home James and don't spare the horses
Drive right through the main part of town
Oh, home James and don't spare the horses
He'll stand up 'cause he can't sit down

(Hah-hah-hah-hah, hah-a-hah-a-hah-a-hah-hah-hah)

No! No! A thousand times no!
You cannot buy my caress
No! No! A thousand times no!
I'd rather die than say yes

I am a child of the valley
An innocent maiden you see
He was a desperate Desmond
Who owned all the town property
He would pursue me through hills and through dells
But I was just wise to his game
Each time he would threaten, "You'll wed me or else"
These were the words I'd exclaim

No! No! A thousand times no!
You cannot buy my caress
No! No! A thousand times no!
I'd rather die than say yes

Altogether, Boys

No! No! A thousand times no!
You cannot buy my caress
No! No! A thousand times no!
I'd rather die than say yes


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2006)