#1178 - I Love My Wife, but O You Kid

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• Composer:
  • Harry von Tilzer (Harry Gumm)

    • #1134 - Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow
    • #1144 - Under the Anheuser Bush
    • #1153 - Wait 'till the Sun Shines, Nellie
    • #1176 - Don't Take Me Home
    • #1178 - I Love My Wife, but O You Kid
    • #1185 - All Alone

    (1872-1946), 1909
• Also known as:
  • I Love, I Love, I Love My Wife But Oh! You Kid
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• Incipit: 5654515432746
• Condensed Incipit: 5654515432746
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• Lyrics:
  Now Jonesy was a married man,
  Oh yes, he was,
  Sweet girlie on the single plan,
  I guess, she was,
  Now Jonesy stopped and spoke to girlie,
  Just as old friends often do,
  And he said “I'm married,
  BUT …, that BUT my dear means you.”
  
  chorus:
  I love, I love, I love my wife,
  But, Oh you kid;
  For my dear wife I'd give my life,
  But, oh you kid.
  Now wifey dear is good to me,
  A wrong she never did,
  I love, I love, I love my wife,
  But, Oh you kid;
  
  Now Jonesy's wife and butcher man
  Each morn would chat,
  This butcher too was married but
  She didn't mind that,
  When poor Jonesy left the house each
  Morning they would sit and spoon;
  Tell your tootsie who you love,
  Then softly he would croon.
  
  
  • Jimmy Lucas

This is a different melody than I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid by Harry W. Armstrong and Billy Clark, also from 1909.