Florrie Was A Flapper 1914

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 20 September 2010
2010

Florrie was a flapper
she was clever, she was smart
you'll realize she must have been because
She was always understood
to make her living by her art,
And no one ever found out what it was,
She figured in the chorus
of "The Picture Postcard Girl"
Her part contained one solitary line.
The line she had to say
was "Hip Hip Hip Hooray!"
and her "hips" were really singularly fine.

Florrie was a flapper
she was dainty she was dapper
she was really quite a fascinating kid.
She got two pound ten a week
and her pearls were quite unique
I don't know how she did it
I don't know how she did it
I don't know how she did it but she did.

Florrie was a flapper
who was very fond of play
She gambolled
as a pretty lambkin should.
I've often heard it stated
that she had a taking way,
And I fancy she took anything she could.
She was pally with the peerage
she was known to all the knuts
She was friends with men
of fashion and of rank,
And they came to play roulette
at her dainty maisonette
where Florrie always used
to take the bank.

Florrie was a flapper
she was dainty she was dapper
She was what you might have called
a winning kid.
If the red they chanced to back
There'd be such a run on black!
I don't know how she did it
I don't know how she did it
I don't know how she did it but she did.

Florrie was a flapper
who was waiting for her chance,
Which the management
was disinclined to give,
Till somehow she got round them
for a little song and dance,
And the man that didn't like it didn't live.
Her singing wasn't wonderful
her dancing wasn't great,
her figure was delightful it is true,
But what gained the most applause
was her dress of snowy gauze
for of course her friends
all came to see her thro'

Florrie was a flapper
she was dainty she was dapper
and her dancing was the limit, or the lid.
When her dainty skirt she'd swish up
they say she shocked the Bishop.
I don't believe she did it
I don't believe she did it
But he told the Missus Bishop that she did.

Florrie was a flapper
who would gad around the town,
She'd lunch with you,
she dine with you she'd sup.
She often said she couldn't see
the need to settle down.
She had so many friends to settle up.
She'd let you take her shopping
at the most expensive place.
She'd say, you mustn't buy me things, but still,
as soon as ever you began to bill and coo
She simply cooed and left you with the bill.

Florrie was a flapper
she was dainty she was dapper
and she never had a matrimonial skid,
And Lord Cowley said that she
was as straight as straight could be
I don't know how he knew it
I don't know how he knew it,
I don't know how he knew it but he did.

Florrie was a flapper
she was dainty she was dapper
Ev'ry bit as full of energy and buzz.
To her age she'll never own up
But her grandchildren are grown up.
I don't know how she does it,
I don't know how she does it,
I don't know how she does it but she does.

Soft karaoke
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Florrie Was A Flapper 1914
from "The Girl From Utah"
Music by Herman Finck
Lyrics by Arthur Wimperis
© MCMXIV by Francis, Day & Hunter - N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 20 September 2010 at 09.00
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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