Something Always Happens When It Shouldn't 1908 'The Prima Donna'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 18 Feb 2004

I've had as much experience
as any dozen men,
a dodging in and out from Cupid's dart.
But something always happens when I'm
getting good, and then,
I get to find me out a new sweetheart!
There's fifty billion people
in the world and I am told,
two thirds of them are women,
why - it's silly!
the market's full! it's overdone!
But when I want a stingy one, why
something always makes me out a "gilly!"

Why something always happens
when it shouldn't!
I can't explain just why it is, or how!
But dere iss complications,
when a girl has got relations,
if it hadn't been for them
I might be married now!

I get some funny friend
what like to make a leetle joke,
before I call to see my girl at night.
They handed me a nice cigar,
they thought that I would smoke,
but first they filled it full of dynamite!
Those foolish kind of tricks,
dey always get you in a fix!
And dat's de night dat ended all my glory!
I thought it was a good cigar,
and so I gave it to her pa,
I hate to tell the finish of the story!

But something always happens
when it shouldn't!
I can't explain just why it is, or how!
Dere came a noise like thunder;
Vere is fader now I wonder?
If it hadn't been for him
I might be married now!

One night I called upon
another sweetheart called Marie!
The family dey were all around the place!
We started in to play a game,
dat ev'ry one should see,
which one of us could make the ugliest face!
Just then my Marie's mother
stuck her face in through the door!
I said: "Your mother wins without delaying!"
But I had made an awful break,
too late I found out my mistake,
when Marie said:
Why mother wasn't - playing!"

Ach! something always happens
when it shouldn't!
I can't explain just why it is, or how!
It couldn't be some other,
it must be the face of mother,
if it hadn't been for her
I might be married now!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Something Always Happens When It Shouldn't 1908
Lyrics by Henry Blossom
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright MCMVIII by M. Witmark & Sons
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 18 February 2004 at 12.41
in association with Doug Grierson
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Charles Dillingham's Production by the Fritzi Scheff Opera Company
"The Prima Donna"
Music by Victor Herbert. Book & Lyrics by Henry Blossom.
Henry Blossom Publication: New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1908.
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