My Lady Hottentot 1901

James Pitt-Payne, LOndon UK - 28 Jun 2004

In Africa there lives a queen,
My Hottentot, sweet Hottentot,
The dearest one I've ever seen,
with eyes that fairly dance with love,
and when the birds have gone to sleep,
My Hottentot, sweet Hottentot,
then to her home I quickly creep,
and serenade my dusky love.
Oh! how her eyes they shine,
with love divine, right into mine,
and then she seems to say,
Please longer stay, don't go away,
and when I said does you love me true,
she said I love you 'deed I do.

For She is my lady Hottentot,
she is my sweet Forgetmenot,
she is the one I mostly prize,
she has such dreamy eyes.
And from her side I'll never part.
She has a mortgage on my heart,
the birds that coo, love you,
my lady Hottentot.

She is my lady Hottentot,
she is my sweet Forgetmenot,
she is the one I mostly prize,
she has such dreamy eyes.
And from her side I'll never part.
She has a mortgage on my heart,
the birds that coo, love you,
my lady Hottentot.

The sun that shines along the Nile,
My Hottentot, sweet Hottentot,
it seems to greet you with a smile,
my pretty little dusky dove,
for we'll be married in the Spring,
My Hottentot, sweet Hottentot,
the little birds upon the wing,
they sing of you my honey love,
Oh! how I long to kiss, this dainty miss,
it's joy and bliss, and from her ruby lips
I gently sips, sweet honey drips,
and when I gaze into her brown eyes
how my poor heart with love it sighs.

For She is my lady Hottentot,
she is my sweet Forgetmenot,
she is the one I mostly prize,
she has such dreamy eyes.
And from her side I'll never part.
She has a mortgage on my heart,
the birds that coo, love you,
my lady Hottentot.

She is my lady Hottentot,
she is my sweet Forgetmenot,
she is the one I mostly prize,
she has such dreamy eyes.
And from her side I'll never part.
She has a mortgage on my heart,
the birds that coo, love you,
my lady Hottentot.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
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lyric
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My Lady Hottentot 1901
Lyrics Wm. Jerome
Music by Harry von Tilzer
© 1901 by Shapiro, Bernstein & von Tilzer - Chicago Ill.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 28 June 2004 at 20.54
in association with Doug Grierson
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