If You Don't Want My Peaches, You'd Better Stop Shaking My Tree 1914

James Pitt-Payne, LOndon UK - 26 Feb 2004

Mary Snow had a beau
who was bashful and shy.
She simply couldn't make the boy propose
no matter how she'd try.
Mary grew tired of waiting,
so she called her beau one side.
While he stood there biting his fingernails,
Mary cried:

If you don't want my peaches,
you'd better stop shaking my tree.
Let me say that you're mighty slow;
you're as cold as an Eskimo.
There's a thousand others waiting,
waiting to propose to me.
So if you don't want my peaches,
you'd better stop shaking my tree.

If you don't want my peaches,
you'd better stop shaking my tree.
Let me say that you're mighty slow;
you're as cold as an Eskimo.
There's a thousand others waiting,
waiting to propose to me.
So if you don't want my peaches,
you'd better stop shaking my tree.

Mary's Pa and her Ma
soon came into the room.
They took a look at Mary's beau and cried:
"You ought to be a groom.
Of course it's none of our business,
but she'd make a lovely bride."
He just answered:
"I'll think it over,"
but Mary cried:

If you don't want my peaches,
you'd better stop shaking my tree.
Let me say that you're mighty slow;
you're as cold as an Eskimo.
There's a thousand others waiting,
waiting to propose to me.
So if you don't want my peaches,
you'd better stop shaking my tree.

If you don't want my peaches,
you'd better stop shaking my tree.
Let me say that you're mighty slow;
you're as cold as an Eskimo.
There's a thousand others waiting,
waiting to propose to me.
So if you don't want my peaches,
you'd better stop shaking my tree.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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If You Don't Want My Peaches, You'd Better Stop Shaking My Tree 1914
written and composed by Irving Berlin
copyright 1914 by Irving Berlin
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 26 February 2004 at 17.35
in association with Doug Grierson
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