Won't You Tell Mer The Lady's Name? 1915

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 18 Apr 2005

When Gaspard came from France
to attend a New Year's Dance,
his English words were few,
but still he knew a thing or two.
While tripping to and fro,
His eyes began to glow,
a flapper stood beneath
a little sprig of mistletoe.
And him she shyly eyed,
so to his host he cried:

Won't you tell me the lady's name?
What's her name? What's her name?
I'd like to know that delightful little dame!
What's her name? What's her name?
Introduce me!
She seems to me to be one of the sports oo!
She'd take a penny for her thoughts,
I don't think,
Won't you tell me the lady's name,
What's her name? What's her name?
I think she thinks things
and thinks I think the same.
Say!
Will she? Won't she? Does she?
Don't she think the same as me
Won't you tell me the lady's name?

Won't you tell me the lady's name?
What's her name? What's her name?
I'd like to know that delightful little dame!
What's her name? What's her name?
Introduce me!
She seems to me to be one of the sports oo!
She'd take a penny for her thoughts,
I don't think,
Won't you tell me the lady's name,
What's her name? What's her name?
I think she thinks things
and thinks I think the same.
Say!
Will she? Won't she? Does she?
Don't she think the same as me
Won't you tell me the lady's name?

Old Jones had lost his wife,
but a widow changed his life,
on him she played the game,
until a twicer he became.
When married safe and sound,
and they were homeward bound,
his son fell thro' the window
when he saw what Dad had found.
His Boy Scout pole he held,
then did "Thumbs Down" and yelled:

Won't you tell me the lady's name?
What's her name? What's her name?
I'd like to know that delightful little dame!
What's her name? What's her name?
Introduce me!
She seems to me to be one of the sports oo!
She'd take a penny for her thoughts,
I don't think,
Won't you tell me the lady's name,
What's her name? What's her name?
I think she thinks things
and thinks I think the same.
Say!
Will she? Won't she? Does she?
Don't she think the same as me
Won't you tell me the lady's name?

Won't you tell me the lady's name?
What's her name? What's her name?
I'd like to know that delightful little dame!
What's her name? What's her name?
Introduce me!
She seems to me to be one of the sports oo!
She'd take a penny for her thoughts,
I don't think,
Won't you tell me the lady's name,
What's her name? What's her name?
I think she thinks things
and thinks I think the same.
Say!
Will she? Won't she? Does she?
Don't she think the same as me
Won't you tell me the lady's name?

When King Hal came in power
Weddings Bells rang by the hour,
He'd marriage lines a lot,
and so an index book he got.
One night he woke by chance,
then gasped and looked askance
a ghostly wife in spectral robes
searched thro' his cast iron pants.
But did he tremble? No!
He sobbed without What Ho!

Won't you tell me the lady's name?
What's her name? What's her name?
I'd like to know that delightful little dame!
What's her name? What's her name?
Introduce me!
She seems to me to be one of the sports oo!
She'd take a penny for her thoughts,
I don't think,
Won't you tell me the lady's name,
What's her name? What's her name?
I think she thinks things
and thinks I think the same.
Say!
Will she? Won't she? Does she?
Don't she think the same as me
Won't you tell me the lady's name?

Won't you tell me the lady's name?
What's her name? What's her name?
I'd like to know that delightful little dame!
What's her name? What's her name?
Introduce me!
She seems to me to be one of the sports oo!
She'd take a penny for her thoughts,
I don't think,
Won't you tell me the lady's name,
What's her name? What's her name?
I think she thinks things
and thinks I think the same.
Say!
Will she? Won't she? Does she?
Don't she think the same as me
Won't you tell me the lady's name?

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Won't You Tell Me The Lady's Name? 1915
Words & Music by Dan Lipton & Charles Knight
© 1915 by B. Feldman & Co.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 18 April 2005 at 08.30
in association with Doug Grierson
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