MY GIRL RAN AWAY
(Steinberg)


Frank Crumit - 1928


Little Petey has lost his sweetie
Someone stole her away
Her misbehaving has sent him raving
He keeps crying all day

My girl ran away with the baker
I found out she needed his dough
Somewhere in the yeast he will take her
Though he is not well bread I know
He has lots of crust, and he carries a bun
It was pie for that guy to steal my own sweet one
My girl ran away with the baker
He's made a big loafer of me

My girl ran away with a shoe man
I'm sad 'cause he's filling my shoe
I had a defeat by the shoe man
Now each day my size makes me blue
Though my French vamp kid said she'd stick to the last
Made a rip in my sole that I know won't heal fast
My girl ran away with the shoe man
I hope they will always have spats

My girl ran away with an oil man
She did not treat me well at that
She is too refined for the oil man
But he gushed till he made her fall
Though he is as crude as a Mexican Pete
With his own standard line of gas he had me beat
My girl ran away with an oil man
The oily bird catches the worm

My girl ran away with the butcher
Now I can't meat her every night
She went to Hamburg with the butcher
Oh, why did I liver from my sight
Though I live on the vegetarian plan
I would be a real cannibal to meat that man
My girl ran away with the butcher
I lung for my heart every day

My girl ran away with a dentist
He yanked my tooth-sie right away
She sits on the bridge with the dentist
Oh, I'd like to crown him some fine day
Although she is false, there's none can fill her place
She's made an impression that I can't erase
My girl ran away with a dentist
Oh, I hope that he gets pyhoria

My girl ran away with the Army
Maybe with the Navy she's gone
I know she'll be true to the Army
For her love is too strong for one
She kisses her friends only, turns others down
But she hasn't an enemy at all in the town
My girl ran away with the Army
Prepare for another big war



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2016)