SHORT AND SWEET

(Bill Tracey, Sam Elrich)


As recorded by:
Devonshire Restaurant Dance Band, Dir. Bert Firman
V. Maurice Elwin
Recorded 20th October 1927



Short and sweet, cute and neat
Can’t help saying each time we meet
Gee I wish she’d fall for me
Loves to flirt, likes to tease
Has the prettiest dimpled knees
She’s as sweet as she can be
This little eeny meeny, teeny weeny
Looks like a doll
And her figure ain’t much bigger
But what she has is plenty
Short and sweet, cute and neat
Most emphatically I repeat
Gee, I wish she’d fall for me

(Musical Break)

Short and sweet, cute and neat
Can’t help saying each time we meet
Gee, I wish she’d fall for me
Lovely Ma, wealthy Pa
Bank account and a nice big car 
She’s as sweet as she can be.




(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - September 2013)