A Bachelor Gay - 1916

James Pitt-Payne and Ian Cousins - 16 Dec 2001

A bachelor gay am I,
Tho' I've suffer'd from Cupid's dart;
But never, I vow, will I say die
In spite of an aching heart.
For a man always loves a girl or two,
Tho' the fact must be confess'd,
He always swears the whole way thro'
To ev'ry girl he tries to woo
That he loves her far the best.

[Chorus] He loves her far the best.

At seventeen he falls in love quite madly
With eyes of tender blue;
At twentyfour he gets it rather badly
With eyes of a diff'rent hue;
At thirtyfive you'll see him flirting sadly
With two or three, or more;
When he fancies he is past love,
It is then he meets his last love,
And he loves her as he's never lov'd before.

At seventeen he falls in love quite madly
With eyes of tender blue;
At twentyfour he gets it rather badly
With eyes of a diff'rent hue;
At thirtyfive you'll see him flirting sadly
With two or three, or more;
When he fancies he is past love,
It is then he meets his last love,
And he loves her as he's never lov'd before.

A girl, as you've heard of old,
Is a kind of a paradox.
She changes her mind more times,
I'm told, Than ever she does her frocks.
And a man's like a moth around a flame,
For it's nearly always found
He burns his wings, but all the same,
The nicest part of Cupid's game
Is fluttering round and round.

[Chorus] Fluttering round and round.

At seventeen he falls in love quite madly
With eyes of tender blue;
At twentyfour he gets it rather badly
With eyes of a diff'rent hue;
At thirtyfive you'll see him flirting sadly
With two or three, or more;
When he fancies he is past love,
It is then he meets his last love,
And he loves her as he's never lov'd before.

At seventeen he falls in love quite madly
With eyes of tender blue;
At twentyfour he gets it rather badly
With eyes of a diff'rent hue;
At thirtyfive you'll see him flirting sadly
With two or three, or more;
When he fancies he is past love,
It is then he meets his last love,
And he loves her as he's never lov'd before.

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A Bachelor Gay 1916
Music by James W. Tate
Lyrics by Clifford Harris and Valentine
copyright 1916 Francis Day and Hunter Co. Ltd., London
Sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed on Sunday 16 Dec 2001 at 10.15
in association with Doug Grierson
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from The hit London Show
'Maid of The Mountains'
1917