The Jack O'Lantern Girl 1904 'It Happened in Nordland'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 25 Jan 2004

Those lady killing gentlemen
who spend their time in hunting hearts
I have encountered now and then
to capture mine they've plied their arts.
I listen to each touching tale
of passion deep, of fond hopes lost
but when I answer
never fail to always keep
my fingers crossed!

A sort of Jack O'Lantern Girl
I lead them here!
I lead then there!
A most elusive elf am I
to capture me they'll ever vainly try.
A sort of Jack O'Lantern Girl!
I lead them here!
I lead them there!
Through dizzy maze and swirl and whirl
they vainly follow me,
the Jack O'Lantern Girl!

Their sorrows deep they tell to me
each seeks the tribute of a tear.
Because they say my sympathy
to them is very very dear.
I hear them all with downcast eye
from which the tears flow forth unforced;
they do not note that as I cry
I always keep my fingers crossed!

A sort of Jack O'Lantern Girl
I lead them here!
I lead then there!
A most elusive elf am I
to capture me they'll ever vainly try.
A sort of Jack O'Lantern Girl!
I lead them here!
I lead them there!
Through dizzy maze and swirl and whirl
they vainly follow me,
the Jack O'Lantern Girl!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Jack O'Lantern Girl 1904
Lyrics by Glen MacDonough
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright MCMIV by M. Witmark & Sons
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 25 January 2004 at 11.10
in association with Doug Grierson
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As sung by Miss Bessie Clayton in "It Happened in Nordland."
Book and Lyrics by Glen MacDonough.
Music by Victor Herbert.
Victor Herbert Publication: New York: M. Witmark & Sons,
Music Supplement of the Chicago Sunday American,
Sunday, March 12, 1905.
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