Every Girl I Meet 1909 "The King of Cadonia"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 31 Jul 2007
2007

When I was a youth approaching wise eighteen,
every girl I saw I thought a perfect queen,
any girl with simple eyes,
would surely make me sympathise
if she but looked my way.
If upon the street I saw a girl in tears,
German, French, American, Scotch or Dutch.
I would profer sympathy and consolation
offer her my escort to her destination,
carry her grips and help her on her way,
I'm not a bit the same today.

Every girl I meet seems better
than the girl I met before,
it can't be that I'm colder
it may be that I'm getting older,
I love a maid a week or so
and then I look around for more,
for every girl I meet,
seem better than the girl I met before.

Every girl I meet seems better
than the girl I met before,
it can't be that I'm colder
it may be that I'm getting older,
I love a maid a week or so
and then I look around for more,
for every girl I meet,
seem better than the girl I met before.

Love affairs in plenty I have had since then.
Interesting teteatetes from tea till ten,
I can break a heart with ease,
and yet I find I'm hard to please
where ladies are concerned.
Fashionable maidens too have kissed my hand,
leaving me to marry and settle down.
Debutantes have eyed me in a mild flirtation
chaperons have snubbed me
in their consternation,
never could I make up my mind to wed,
for to myself I've always said.

Every girl I meet seems better
than the girl I met before,
it can't be that I'm colder
it may be that I'm getting older,
I love a maid a week or so
and then I look around for more,
for every girl I meet,
seem better than the girl I met before.

Every girl I meet seems better
than the girl I met before,
it can't be that I'm colder
it may be that I'm getting older,
I love a maid a week or so
and then I look around for more,
for every girl I meet,
seem better than the girl I met before.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Every Girl I Meet 1909
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Percival Knight
© MCMIX by T.B.Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter  N.Y.
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from "The King of Cadonia"
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 31 July 2007 at 12.16pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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