#1167 - You Look Awful Good to Father

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• Composer:
  • Joseph Edgar Howard

    • #1112 - Hello—Ma Baby
    • #1167 - You Look Awful Good to Father

    (1878-1961), 1905
  • from the musical The Umpire
• Also known as:
  • You Look Awfully Good to Father
• MIDI | show
  
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• Lyrics:
  Jimmie was the toughest kid in all our school
  Gee! but he was bad,
  Only thing that ever scared him much was girls,
  He could lick his dad;
  But when Jim grew up he lost his heart,
  To a little girl that high,
  But goodness only knows,
  He didn't dare propose,
  Tho' she'd look at him and sigh.
  
  chorus:
  You look awful good to father,
  You look good to mother too,
  You look awful good to sister,
  You look good to cousin Lou,
  You look good to all the family,
  As for mine, well can't you see?
  Kind o' hate to tell you but I might as well,
  Honey, you look awful good to me.
  (repeat chorus)
  
  Jimmie was so fussed he couldn't talk at all,
  He went in the air,
  Girl said, “Guess you'd ask someone to marry you,
  Only you don't dare,
  So if silence gives consent, “I'm yours.”
  Then she called the family in,
  And said, “Jim is engaged,
  Now dad, don't be enraged,
  This is what I said to him.
  
  
  • Frank Ramsay Adams (1883-1963) and Will M. Hough (1882-1962), 1905