The Snake In The Grass - 1934

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 01 Aug 2001

This is the song of a working goil
Poor but she had such pride,
One day her foreman down at the works
Asked her out for a bicycle ride,
He said he'd take her away out west
To Coney Island some day,
But then she knew that
He was a villain you see
And her mother had taught her to say:

Oh! "No sir" said she,
"You'll never tempt me,
Stand aside, Sir,
And let me pass."
And the way she exposed him,
Now ev'ryone knows him,
Oh! The Snake in the Grass.

Next day the maiden went to a Ball,
She was longing to waltz
So when this villain asked for a dance
That was the once
She forgot his faults;
But when he asked her
If she would have a beer
To help quench her thirst
Then she knew that
The devil was not on the level
And nothing on earth could be worse.

Oh! "No sir" said she,
"You'll never tempt me,
Stand aside, Sir,
And let me pass."
And the way she exposed him,
Now ev'ryone knows him,
Oh! The Snake in the Grass.

Then she got work in a burlesque show,
Met this villain again.
But she knew virtue always would win
When after hours
She was told to remain:
"I'm going to make
A soubrette of you."
This villain manager said,
What the word "soubrette"
Meant she knew not
For she went and scream'd
"Sir I would rather be dead."

Oh! "No sir" said she,
"You'll never tempt me,
Stand aside, Sir,
And let me pass."
And the way she exposed him,
Now ev'ryone knows him,
Oh! The Snake in the Grass.

You'd think by this time
That she would know
Who this fiend really was.
But all he needed
Was a false beard
To fool the lassie again.
Because she went with him
To a football match.
A football started to soar
When the ball disappear'd
It had taken his beard
And uncovered the villain once more.

Oh! "No sir" said she,
"You'll never tempt me,
Stand aside, Sir,
And let me pass."
And the way she exposed him,
Now ev'ryone knows him,
Oh! The Snake in the Grass.

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The Snake In The Grass 1934
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The Snake In The Grass 1934
by John Alden
© MCMXXXIV De Sylva, Brown and Henderson Inc
Sterling Music Publishing Co Ltd
Sequenced for Piano by
Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Wednesday 01 Aug 2001 at 14.04
in association with Doug Grierson
and Bunty Pritchard Jones
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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