Won't You Tell Me The Lady's Name 1919

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 18 Feb 2007
2007

When Gaspard came from France
to attend a New Year 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 this 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... Ooo!
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 this 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... Ooo!
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 this 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... Ooo!
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 this 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... Ooo!
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
Wedding 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! WhatHo!"

Won't you tell me this 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... Ooo!
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 this 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... Ooo!
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 1919
Words & Music by Dan Lipton & Charles Knight
© 1919 by B. Feldman & Co.  London
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 18 February 2007 at 12.02am
in association with Doug Grierson
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