A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody - Kenny Baker

A pretty girl is like a melody

That haunts you night and day

Just like the strain of a haunting refrain

She’ll start upon a marathon

And run around your brain

You can’t escape, she’s in your memory

By morning, night and noon

She will leave you and then come back again

A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune

While a string orchestra played

This lovely tune I met a maid

And from the start she set my brain a-whirl

But alas we parted soon

And now I love to hear this tune

For it reminds me of that certain girl

Once I met a girlie at the close of spring

I began to woo her and she answered «Yes» that summer

But when I went out to buy the wedding ring

She left me flat and ran off with a drummer

While the cello moaned tenderly this melody

She said to me «I love you»

When the cello fellow was through he said «Adieu»

She said «Me too» and flew