Sheet Music, 1900-1909
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MUM00682, 0368
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Cover: photo of woman in hat with two smaller photos of a man; Publisher: x
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States
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Original Collection
Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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Lyrics
Lyrics:
Game of Love (Duet)First verse
There are many kinds of girls and they have just as many arts, And there isn't any second way of reading women's hearts, But in playing in the game of love the sex is rather keen. For example, there's the bashful bud of sweet sixteen.
First Refrain
If you ask her if she loves you, She will look up so and sigh, And let you reead the answer in her downcast eye, But if she was strictly honest And would tell the truth to you, She loves a lot of fellows, but she'll try and love you, too. If you ask her if she loves you, She will look up so and sigh, And let you reead the answer in her downcast eye, But if she was strictly honest And would tell the truth to you, She loves a lot of fellows, but she'll try and love you, too.
Second verse
I suppose as maids grow older they to fewer lovers lean, And incline more to the retail way of running love's machine, Now when sweet sixteen is twenty then will lovers prove a bore, And will any suiter suit her when she's twenty-four?
Second refrain
If you ask, then, if she loves you, With a smile serenely sad, She'll say wedlock for women is a wornout fad, There is something or other That the world needs her to do, But she'll love you as a brother if you think that that will do. If you ask, then, if she loves you, With a smile serenely sad, She'll say wedlock for women is a wornout fad, There is something or other That the world needs her to do, But she'll love you as a brother if you think that that will do.
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