Saturday Afternoon On Broadway 1914

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 24 May 2009
2009

In school they tell
you figures do not lie
Perhaps it is their duty,
but ask the girls
who come in here to buy
ten dollars worth of beauty.
As each peach crop
emerges from my shop,
the men stare in an odd way
the work we do
is very much in view,
most any day on Broadway,
on Broadway.

Saturday afternoon on Broadway
when the matinées are out.
Curly girlies ev'rywhere
Girlies dark and girlies fair,
Central park to Union Square
there's girlies all about.
Nary a curl but comes from my shop
complexions that will wear off soon
it is just a grand way, gaud way, Broadway,
still it's nice on Saturday afternoon.

Saturday afternoon on Broadway
when the matinées are out.
Curly girlies ev'rywhere
Girlies dark and girlies fair,
Central park to Union Square
there's girlies all about.
Nary a curl but comes from my shop
complexions that will wear off soon
it is just a grand way, gaud way, Broadway,
still it's nice on Saturday afternoon.

Sometimes a girl
comes tripping in my store,
so fat she scarce can toddle,
before she's through
her figure's taken for
a nineteen fifteen model.
When I was shown to our old ladies home,
they cried out "Please restore us!"
When I had done those ladies every one
got jobs in Ziegfeld's chorus,
on Broadway.

Saturday afternoon on Broadway
when the matinées are out.
Curly girlies ev'rywhere
Girlies dark and girlies fair,
Central park to Union Square
there's girlies all about.
Nary a curl but comes from my shop
complexions that will wear off soon
it is just a grand way, gaud way, Broadway,
still it's nice on Saturday afternoon.

Saturday afternoon on Broadway
when the matinées are out.
Curly girlies ev'rywhere
Girlies dark and girlies fair,
Central park to Union Square
there's girlies all about.
Nary a curl but comes from my shop
complexions that will wear off soon
it is just a grand way, gaud way, Broadway,
still it's nice on Saturday afternoon.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Saturday Afternoon On Broadway 1914
Song
Music by Charles J.Gebest
Lyrics by Channing Pollock & Rennold Wolf
© MCMXIV by Jerome H.Remick & Co. - New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 24 May 2009 at 18.42
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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