OH !  OH !  ANTONIO
Florrie Forde (Australia) - 1908


In quaint native dress an Italian maid
Was seeping distress as the streets she strayed
Searching in every part for her bold sweetheart
And his ice-cream cart

Her English was bad
It cannot be denied
And so to herself 
In Italian she cried

Oh! Oh! oh Antonio, he's gone away
Left me alone-ee-o, all on my own-ee-o
I want to meet him with his new sweetheart
Then up will go Antonio and his ice-cream cart

So sad grew the plight of this fair young lass
She'd faint at the sight of an ice-cream ?????
She dreamed nigh every day he'd come back to stay
Then he'd fade away.

Her old hurdy-gurdy 
All day she'd parade
And this she would sing,
Sweet tunes that it played

Oh! Oh! Antonio, he's gone away
left me alone-ee-o, all on my own-ee-o
I want to meet him with he's new sweetheart
Then up will go Antonio and his ice-cream cart

Oh! Oh! Antonio, he's gone away
Left me alone-ee-o
All on my own-ee-o
I want to meet him with he's new sweetheart
Then up will go Antonio and his ice-cream cart



(Transcribed by John Sanders, Mel Priddle, & Kathy - December 2002)