Don't Notice Me 1906

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 16 Sep 2006
2006

Tom Beasly worked in a livery barn,
very seldom he went out.
He fed the stock
and worked around
as a genral roust about:
So he got to know a real swell coon
and ev'ry time they'd meet,
he'd start to tell his troubles,
even stop him on the street.
The coon one day was with a gal,
she knew Tom Beasly well.
Tom met them and he started in
his troubles then to tell.
He talked and chewed the rag to them,
well, they couldn't break away;
until this coon called Tom one side
and to him he did say:

When I'm promenading with my lady friend
don't notice me;
I like to see you when I'm by myself
but never when I'm out in company,
do me a favor and don't ask me why,
next time you see me kindly close your eye
and if you want to be a friend of mine
just pass on by; don't notice me.

When I'm promenading with my lady friend
don't notice me;
I like to see you when I'm by myself
but never when I'm out in company,
do me a favor and don't ask me why,
next time you see me kindly close your eye
and if you want to be a friend of mine
just pass on by; don't notice me.

Now Beasly wore a downcast look
for many weary days.
He vowed he'd get back
if it took him his very soul away;
he raked and scraped to get enough
to dress himself up fine,
then called on this here same gal
and he took her out to dine,
they had to pass a barber shop
where this coon was employed,
and as they passed Tom's bosom swelled
he felt so overjoyed.
His gal cried: "Tom, your friend in there
just bowed as we went by."
Tom's turn had come, so back he run,
and thro' that door he cried:

When I'm promenading with my lady friend
don't notice me;
I like to see you when I'm by myself
but never when I'm out in company,
do me a favor and don't ask me why,
next time you see me kindly close your eye
and if you want to be a friend of mine
just pass on by; don't notice me.

When I'm promenading with my lady friend
don't notice me;
I like to see you when I'm by myself
but never when I'm out in company,
do me a favor and don't ask me why,
next time you see me kindly close your eye
and if you want to be a friend of mine
just pass on by; don't notice me.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Don't Notice Me 1906
By Rose & Snyder
© 1906 by F.A.Mills   N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 16 September 2006 at 10.00pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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