I LOVE THE GIRLS IN MY OWN PECULIAR WAY
From the film "Queen High" (1930)
(E.Y. Harburg / Henry Souvaine)


Charles Ruggles (Film Soundtrack) - 1930



Some worship women and some respect them
I like to strangle and then disect them
I love the girls in my own peculiar way

It seems to be my delicious hobby
Sucking on ladies in some dark lobby
I give the best little necks a break in place

There's my first, my Henrietta
May her carcass rest where it's found
Furthermore, put out her can 
When the garbage man comes around

Her hair was red, so I had to match it
That's what I did with my little red hatchet
I love the girls in my own peculiar way

Women have charms I don't find in men
They fascinate me greatly, but then
There comes a time in each woman's life
When a little suffocation does her good

Caesar enjoyed seeing women frolic
I like to bathe them in hot carbolic
Boy, what a joy when they gurgle down the drain

Henry the Eighth was a heartbreak wizard
But when it comes to a lady's gizzard
I can extract them without the slightest pain

There's my first, my Henrietta
Who has gone and sprung a little leak
Though her soul may be in Heaven
Her body's up the creek

How it was done really don't concern us
The better half seemed to fit a furnace
I love the girls in my own peculiar way







(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2011)