SHE HAS A LITTLE DIMPLE ON HER CHIN
(McConnell / Osborn / Irving Bibo)

Ernest Hare & Billy Jones - 1929
Jack Kaufman - 1929
Eddie Walters - 1929


There's a maiden in our town
By the name of Mary Brown
She has a little dimple on her chin

All the fellows in our town
Follow Mary all around
Because she has a dimple on her chin

Mary hasn't pretty clothes
And she hasn't silken hose
She has a little dimple on her chin

She has freckles on her nose
Still she has a lot of beaus
Because she has a dimple on her chin

(SPOKEN) HARE: What do you say to a little dance, William?
(SPOKEN) JONES: It's a ripping idea.

At her house each night at nine
All the fellows wait in line
To see the little dimple on her chin

When they call, they hang about
Till her Father kicks them out
Because she has a dimple on her chin

She went to a beauty place
Where they lifted up her face
And how they lifted it, it was a sin

Now you look at her and see
Where the forehead used to be
The pretty little dimple on her chin

(SPOKEN) HARE: Now we'll dance with our hats off.
(SPOKEN) JONES: Yes, it's warm in here.

Once she wasn't feeling good
So she went to Doctor Woods
And asked him what was wrong when she went in

He examined her, then he
Said to her, "All that I see
A pimple in the dimple on your chin"

Ah, poor Mary is a fright
When she goes to bed at night
Her hair is false and so is ev'ry limb

She removes her wooden leg
Hangs her teeth upon a peg
But she don't remove the dimple on her chin

(SPOKEN) JONES: Ah, Sailor's Hornpipe
(SPOKEN) HARE: With our hats on. Heave ho!

At a party years ago
Ev'rybody that you know
Recited soulfully of Gunga Din

But those classics are passe
For the folks recite today
She has a little dimple on her chin

Scientists from near and far
Came by aeroplane and car
To study Mary's dimple on her chin

Then they made a big report
It was nothing but a wart
And not a little dimple on her chin

(SPOKEN) HARE: Now on one foot.
(SPOKEN) JONES: Yes, sir.

Once to Washington she went
And in Congress ev'ry gent
Was staring at the dimple on her chin

Speeches stopped upon the floor
Senators began to roar
She had a little dimple on her chin

Then the Speaker got real mad
Yelled, "Have order, this is bad
Take the floor now, Senator O'Flynn"

But the Senator turned red
"Mister Speaker, Sir", he said
"She has a little dimple on her chin"

(SPOKEN) BOTH: Up socks.

Though it doesn't mean a thing
We could sing and sing and sing
About the little dimple on her chin

But we're running out of rhyme
So we'll sing another time
About the little dimple on her F-A-C-E, chin!


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2005)