Don't Bring Me Posies 1921

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 Feb 2007
2007

Mary was a chorus girl
in a Broadway Show,
ev'rywhere that Mary went
the Johns were sure to go.
All the boys for miles around
sent flowers ev'ry day,
but when they'd call on Mary
they would hear her say:

Don't send me posies
when it's shoesies that I need,
don't bring me flowers
or send me the seed,
Roses are nice I believe,
but I can't dress like Mother Eve
don't bring me posies
when it's shoesies that I need.

Don't send me posies
when it's shoesies that I need,
don't bring me flowers
or send me the seed,
Roses are nice I believe,
but I can't dress like Mother Eve
don't bring me posies
when it's shoesies that I need.

Mary had a little lamb
who was flush with kale,
ev'ry night he'd come around
with flowers by the bale,
Mary's little dressing room
looked like a big bouquet.
But when he called on Mary
he would hear her say:

Don't send me posies
when it's shoesies that I need,
don't bring me flowers
or send me the seed,
Roses are nice I believe,
but I can't dress like Mother Eve
don't bring me posies
when it's shoesies that I need.

Don't send me posies
when it's shoesies that I need,
don't bring me flowers
or send me the seed,
Roses are nice I believe,
but I can't dress like Mother Eve
don't bring me posies
when it's shoesies that I need.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Don't Bring Me Posies 1921
Music by Fred Rose
Lyrics by Billy McCabe & Clarence Jennings
© MCMXXI by Irving Berlin Inc.  N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 21 February 2007 at 5.59pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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