Vamping Sal 1923

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 Dec 2009
2009

All you folks come gather round
and listen to this tale,
I've just found the gal
that made a tadpole whip a whale,
I know her name,
I know her game,
'Twas way down South,
I found out just how she won her fame:

They call her Vamping Sal
The Sheba of Georgia,
This sweet creature is a vamping fool,
She vamps preachers out of Sunday School.
All the gals hate the Sheba of Georgia,
They all know they'll be forgotten
when Sal starts vamping
thru the land of cotton.
All the men now and then love only Sally,
And I mean like a queen she is real pally,
And when she croons her song
some good man sure goes wrong,
they call her Vamping Sal,
the Sheba of Georgia

They call her Vamping Sal
The Sheba of Georgia,
This gal's greatest of the vamps I know
She does vamping by the radio.
All the gals hate the Sheba of Georgia
They have one beau, Sal has twenty
They may be old
but ev'ryone has plenty.
As a vamp she's the champ
you can't forget her
Ev'ry day, ev'ry way
she's getting better,
and when she does Salome
The old men all leave home,
they call her Vamping Sal,
the Sheba of Georgia.

I don't know so many dames
that vamp like Sally can,
I don't know how any dame
could follow Sally's plan,
She has a way,
that seems to say
"I want you now,"
and somehow she steals your heart away.

They call her Vamping Sal
The Sheba of Georgia,
This gal's greatest of the vamps I know
She does vamping by the radio.
All the gals hate the Sheba of Georgia
They have one beau, Sal has twenty
They may be old
but ev'ryone has plenty.
As a vamp she's the champ
you can't forget her
Ev'ry day, ev'ry way
she's getting better,
and when she does Salome
The old men all leave home,
they call her Vamping Sal,
the Sheba of Georgia.

They call her Vamping Sal
The Sheba of Georgia,
When Sal heard about that lovin' Sam,
She just vamped him out of Alabam'
All the gals hate the Sheba of Georgia
They know when she spies a laddie
that some sweet mama's
bound to lose her daddy.
She's the kind you will find
that's cute and simple,
Then she'll show all her beaus
her pretty dimple,
and when she rolls her eye
just kiss your man goodbye
they call her Vamping Sal,
The Sheba of Georgia.

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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Vamping Sal 1923
The Sheba of Georgia
Foxtrot Song
Music by Lew Pollack
Lyrics by Henry Creamer
© MCMXXIII by M.Witmark & Sons
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, london UK
on Monday 21 December 2009 at 12.13
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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