I Should Worry and Get Wrinkles 1912 'Ziegfield Follies'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 07 Aug 2005

My mother told me long ago:
No matter what your grief or woe,
Don't let your worry show in any case.
It's ruination to the skin,
when grief and worry lie within,
it puts a lot of wrinkles on your face.
So when my dear old wealthy husband died
I smiled and laughed and never even sighed:
When people ask me why
I didn't moan or cry,
I gazed at them amazed and then I cried:

I should worry and get wrinkles?
I'm too smart for that by half,
Now wouldn't I be simple,
if I'd fret and get a wrinkle,
I can show a lot of dimples,
If I laugh,
I should grieve that hubby leaves me?
He left me all his wealth,
why should I sigh?
Where he's gone there's no returning,
with his love for me he's burning.
I should worry and get wrinkles?
Get away! Not I!

A lawyer out in Amsterdam,
His Christian name was Abraham,
I don't think that's a Christian name, do you?
It was in Amsterdam, it all,
was told me early in the fall,
he said my husband flirted entre nous.
He thought of course that I'd at once decide
to have him have my marriage knot untied.
Said he to me: "Of course,
you'll sue for a divorce,"
but he was quite surprised when I replied.

I should worry and get wrinkles?
I should set my hubby free?
When he flirts with others,
his remorse he always smothers
just by bringing pretty presents home to me,
If he has a mild flirtation,
some inexpensive gift for me he'll buy.
If he only does get reckless,
I might get a diamond necklace
I should worry and get wrinkles?
Get away! Not I!

A Suffragette told me: "My dear,
before you there's a bright career,
If you will be a fighting Suffragette,
So go and get a piece of brick,
and throw it through a window quick,
then all we women want of course we'll get."
I said: that all depends on what you crave,
"The path of triumph leads but to the grave."
I'd like to state, my dear,
if you break windows here,
you'll get about six months
in which to rave.

I should worry and get wrinkles?
I should care if women vote?
Why I'd be off my trolley
when with just a little jolly
I can get another velvet opera coat,
What care I for women's suffrage?
There's nothing that I want that it will buy,
Trust in God and don't resist her,
She'll take care of you dear sister
I should worry and get wrinkles?
Get away! Not I!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I Should Worry and Get Wrinkles 1912
Lyric by Vincent Bryan - Music by Raymond Hubbell
As Sung in Ziegfeld Follies at Ziegfeld Moulin Rouge, New York.
Staged By Julian Mitchell.
© MCMXII by Chas. K. Harris, New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 07 August 2005 at 02.01am
In association with Doug Grierson
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