Cheer Up Girls 1907 Kern

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 15 Jun 2006
2006

The rule in the majority
of all the modern games
is always try to swell the score;
and so, a great authority today
severely blames a tendency
we all deplore;
he says that in the marriage game
we shirk a duty plain,
and very few a score will get;
He fears the population
may be soon upon the wane,
says marriage is the one best bet.

So Cheer up! Girls,
you never know your luck,
Cheer up! Girls,
just show a little pluck;
chase a man on Monday,
all the week and on a Sunday
don't be an also ran!
A man's the softest mark
you ever, ever struck.
You may only occupy
a little tenement,
but you may be the mother
of a future president!
So cheer up!
You never know your luck!

In social economics
we should always do our share,
that is we ought to do our best;
for any little Yankee boy,
we're all of us aware,
may some day be a White House guest;
and ev'ry little Yankee girl,
as ev'rybody knows,
with ordinairy first class care,
can go upon the stage and
as the daily paper shows,
can wed a Pittsburgh millionaire.

So Cheer up! Girls,
you never know your luck,
Cheer up! Girls,
just show a little pluck;
chase a man on Monday,
all the week and on a Sunday
don't be an also ran!
A man's the softest mark
you ever, ever struck.
You may only occupy
a little tenement,
but you may be the mother
of a future president!
So cheer up!
You never know your luck!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Cheer Up Girls 1907 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by M.E.Rourke
© MCMVII by T.B.Harms Co.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 15 June 2006 at 23.30
in association with Doug Grierson
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