Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Me 1906 'The Red Mill'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 11 Feb 2004

I should like,
without undo reiteration of the ego,
to explain, how very hard
I find it is to make my pay go 'round
among my vulgar creditors
I'm fearfully in debt,
for I always have afforded
any thing that I could get!
But I must say I've enjoyed
the best of what there is in life;
I've been lucky in my love affairs
I've never had a wife!
I can summon little int'rest
in the dry affairs of state,
and the bus'nessmen who call on me
are coldly left to wait!

For every day is ladies' day with me.
I'm quite at their disposal all the while!
And my pleasure it is double
if they come to me in trouble,
for I always find a way
to make them smile, the little darlings!
I've no doubt I should have married long ago!
It's the proper thing to do you'll all agree!
But I never could find any fun
in wasting all my time on one,
so ev'ry day is ladies' day with me.

It's a frightful thing to think
of all the hearts that I have broken,
altho' each one fell in love with me
without the slightest token,
that my fatal gift of beauty
had inflamed her little heart,
but I found that some small favor
always seemed to ease the smart.
A position for a cousin
or a loan to dear papa;
just a dainty diamond necklace
or a pretty motor car.
But I don't begrudge the collarets
and necklaces or pearls,
all the money that I ever saved
is what I've spent on girls!

For every day is ladies' day with me.
I'm quite at their disposal all the while!
And my pleasure it is double
if they come to me in trouble,
for I always find a way
to make them smile, the little darlings!
I've no doubt I should have married long ago!
It's the proper thing to do you'll all agree!
But I never could find any fun
in wasting all my time on one,
so ev'ry day is ladies' day with me.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Me 1906
Lyrics by Henry Blossom
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright MCMVI by M. Witmark & Sons N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 11 February 2004 at 22.46
in association with Doug Grierson
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David Montgomery and Fred A. Stone in Chas. Dillingham's Production
"The Red Mill"
Music by Victor Herbert. Book & Lyrics by Henry Blossom.
Henry Blossom Publication: New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1906.
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