I Want A Little Girl 1930 JPitt-Payne

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 30Nov2013
2013

Sweethearts passing arm in arm
happy as can be,
they have nothing else but love
but they don't envy me.
I've most ev'rything I need,
still I never boast
for there's one thing I haven't got
here's what I want most:

I want a little girl
to love a lot
I'd give ev'rything
that I've got
for a little girl
who'd fall in love with me
I want a little girl
she may not look
like the kind in a picture book
but if she can cook
she'll suit me to a "T"
She don't have to wave her hair
or dress in fancy clothes
and I wouldn't even care
if she don't wear silken hose,
I want a little girl to call my own
there must be someone
that's all alone,
just a little girl
who'd fall in love with me.

I want a little girl
to press my clothes
sew on buttons
and darn my hose
just a little girl
who'd fall in love with me.
I want to eat the things
that she might bake
without gettin' a tummy ache
just a little girl
who knows her groceries
apple is my fav'rite pie
I always ask for more,
let me eat and know that I
won't awake at heaven's door.
I want a little girl
that certain kind
the kind you read of
but never find,
just a little girl
who'd fall in love with me.

Ev'ry time I see a pair
'neath the starlit sky
somehow it don't seem quite fair
that love should pass me by.
I'm no diff'rent from the rest,
still I've never known
the joy of loving someone else
I could call my own:

I want a little girl
to love a lot
I'd give ev'rything
that I've got
for a little girl
who'd fall in love with me
I want a little girl
she may not look
like the kind in a picture book
but if she can cook
she'll suit me to a "T"
She don't have to wave her hair
or dress in fancy clothes
and I wouldn't even care
if she don't wear silken hose,
I want a little girl to call my own
there must be someone
that's all alone,
just a little girl
who'd fall in love with me.

I want a little girl
to press my clothes
sew on buttons
and darn my hose
just a little girl
who'd fall in love with me.
I want to eat the things
that she might bake
without gettin' a tummy ache
just a little girl
who knows her groceries
apple is my fav'rite pie
I always ask for more,
let me eat and know that I
won't awake at heaven's door.
I want a little girl
that certain kind
the kind you read of
but never find,
just a little girl
who'd fall in love with me.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I Want A Little Girl 1930 JPitt-Payne
Music by Murray Mencher
Lyrics by Billy Moll
© MCMXXX by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.Inc.  New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 30 November 2013 at 16.58
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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