I'd Like To Catch Your Eye 1903

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19 Nov 2011
2011

In a trolley car
sat a maid one day,
and a youth was standing by,
and she puckered up her lips
in a pouting way,
as he tried to catch her eye;
but the lad who held on a leather strap
looked at her and wondered why,
but she drooped her head,
and with blushes red
as she heard him softly sigh.

I'd like to catch your eye
you look so sweet and shy;
I think that I could love you
if you would let me try;
I'd like to catch your eye,
and meet you on the sly,
I think that I could win you
if I could catch your eye.

I'd like to catch your eye
you look so sweet and shy;
I think that I could love you
if you would let me try;
I'd like to catch your eye,
and meet you on the sly,
I think that I could win you
if I could catch your eye.

When a maid you meet,
who's petite and sweet
and at ev'ry word you say,
casts her eyes demurely down,
with a pretty frown,
you had best be on your way
she may shyly pout
but you'll soon find out
that your doom's
been sealed and signed;
for a bashful flirt
is the most expert
and exasperating kind.

You'd like to catch her eye
you're foolish if you try.
She'll blush and seem so frightened
and just about to cry;
As timid as a bird,
like all the birds, she's fly;
and she will have you winging
if you try to catch her eye.

You'd like to catch her eye
you're foolish if you try.
She'll blush and seem so frightened
and just about to cry;
As timid as a bird,
like all the birds, she's fly;
and she will have you winging
if you try to catch her eye.

You can't be much hurt
by a flirt that's pert,
for to give that kind her due;
Having two strings to her bow,
she soon lets you know
that she's only stringing you;
But the shy young thing
stings you for a ring,
and unless you're rather cute,
you are apt to land
on the witness stand
in a breach of promise suit.

You'd like to catch her eye
but she'll look sad and sigh,
'till the farmers on the jury
would sentence you to die.
She'll fool the stern old judge
and make the lawyers cry;
She'll catch your twenty thousand
but you will not catch her eye.

You'd like to catch her eye
but she'll look sad and sigh,
'till the farmers on the jury
would sentence you to die.
She'll fool the stern old judge
and make the lawyers cry;
She'll catch your twenty thousand
but you will not catch her eye.

On the busy street
stood a maid one day
and a dude was passing by;
And she tapped her little foot
in an angry way,
when he tried to catch her eye.
Then a street car stopped,
and aboard she hopped,
but the due was following near;
and she blushed quite red
and she hung her head
as he whispered in her ear:

"I'd like to catch your eye
you look so sweet and shy."
Just then an auto knocked him
'bout seven stories high.
and when they picked him up
the doctor heard him sigh:
"It's best to catch
your street car first
before you catch your eye."

"I'd like to catch your eye
you look so sweet and shy."
Just then an auto knocked him
'bout seven stories high.
and when they picked him up
the doctor heard him sigh:
"It's best to catch
your street car first
before you catch your eye."

On Washington Street
in the broiling heat
with the sun's rays pouring down,
walked old Farmer Chores,
looking in the stores
of the busiest street in town.
'Neath the old man's arm,
doing no one harm,
was an old umbrella grey;
It stuck out two feet
and a damsel sweet
just behind it heard it say:

"I'd like to catch her eye
and b'gosh I think I'll try,
There's no fun in umbrellas
when everything's so dry.
I'm old and rather faded,
not feeling very spry,
But I think that she'd
be stuck on me
if I could catch her eye."

"I'd like to catch her eye
and b'gosh I think I'll try,
There's no fun in umbrellas
when everything's so dry.
I'm old and rather faded,
not feeling very spry,
But I think that she'd
be stuck on me
if I could catch her eye."

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I'd Like To Catch Your Eye 1903
Music by Gus Edwards
Lyrics by Edgar Smith
© 1903 by F.A.Mills  - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 19 November 2011 at 10.50
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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