The Brinkley Bathing Girl 1909 Ziegfield Follies

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 20 Oct 2004

You know the Gibson bathing girl,
so haughty and so tall;
she rules just like a queen upon the beach.
She captures every fellow's heart
she wins them one and all;
the artists say that she's a perfect peach.
Of late we've seen a bathing girl
of rather diff'rent sort;
her cleverness and grace we can't ignore;
And every chap who sees her thinks
that swimming is a sport,
and hails her as the Venus of the shore.

Oh, the Brinkley bathing girl,
of the ocean she's a pearl.
She shows good form,
your heart she'll storm
and set your brain awhirl.
Every charm she will disclose,
and we love to see her pose.
tho' you can't keep your hair in curl,
You Brinkley Bathing Girl.

Oh, the Brinkley bathing girl,
of the ocean she's a pearl.
She shows good form,
your heart she'll storm
and set your brain awhirl.
Every charm she will disclose,
and we love to see her pose.
tho' you can't keep your hair in curl,
You Brinkley Bathing Girl.

Another bathing girl you know,
the daintiest of all,
a symphony is she in black and white;
she is the very sort of girl
for whom the fellows call.
When she's on view they say:
"She's out of sight."
She don't go in the ocean much
a sun bath on the sands
is exercise enough for her it seems.
She hates to spoil her bathing suit,
it shrinks to beat the band,
so when a wave runs after her she screams.

Oh, the Brinkley bathing girl,
of the ocean she's a pearl.
She shows good form,
your heart she'll storm
and set your brain awhirl.
Every charm she will disclose,
and we love to see her pose.
tho' you can't keep your hair in curl,
You Brinkley Bathing Girl.

Oh, the Brinkley bathing girl,
of the ocean she's a pearl.
She shows good form,
your heart she'll storm
and set your brain awhirl.
Every charm she will disclose,
and we love to see her pose.
tho' you can't keep your hair in curl,
You Brinkley Bathing Girl.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Brinkley Bathing Girl 1909
Music by Maurice Levi
Lyrics by Harry B. Smith
from "The Ziegfield Follies of 1909"
as Presented in The Jardin De Paris Atop The New York Theatre
© MXMIX by Jerome H. Remick & Co. N.Y. & Detroit
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 20 October 2004 at 15.16
in association with Doug Grierson
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