Arrah Arabia 1908

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 10 October 2010
2010

On Coney Isle
where balmy breezes blow,
There lived an Irish dame.
She won a smile
down in a ten cent show,
she wiggled into fame.
They called her "Arabia"
and talked of her dancing,
She looked entrancing,
dark eyes a glancing,
Pat McCann, an Irishman,
who caught her a prancing, says:
"Faith, I know that smile."
She never saw The Nile!
She came from Erin's Isle!

Arrah! Arabia, Arrah gowan!
You're no Hindoo baby
with that old lace curtain on;
You can smoke your Turkish Trophy,
But your name is Maggie Brophy,
Faith you look as if you'd bite us,
when you dance the gay St. Vitus,
Arrah gowan, Arabia!

Arrah! Arabia, Arrah gowan!
You're no Hindoo baby
with that old lace curtain on;
You can smoke your Turkish Trophy,
But your name is Maggie Brophy,
Faith you look as if you'd bite us,
when you dance the gay St. Vitus,
Arrah gowan, Arabia!

Next night McCann went down
to see the maid,
With bagpipes and cobeen.
When she began,
with all his might he played,
"The Wearin' of The Green"
She got twisted, he insisted,
bagpipes asquealing,
they started spieling,
jig dance and reeling,
Bombashays and U.S.A's
says Patrick with feeling,
"They suit the heathen Turks.
I spoiled Arabia's works;
She'll dance no more in jerks!"

Arrah! Arabia, Arrah gowan!
You're no Hindoo baby
with that old lace curtain on;
You can smoke your Turkish Trophy,
But your name is Maggie Brophy,
Faith you look as if you'd bite us,
when you dance the gay St. Vitus,
Arrah gowan, Arabia!

Arrah! Arabia, Arrah gowan!
You're no Hindoo baby
with that old lace curtain on;
You can smoke your Turkish Trophy,
But your name is Maggie Brophy,
Faith you look as if you'd bite us,
when you dance the gay St. Vitus,
Arrah gowan, Arabia!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Arrah Arabia 1908
Music by Dorothy Jardon
Lyrics by Edward Madden
© MCMVIII by Jos.W.Stern & Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 10 October 2010 at 16.22
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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