American Old Time Song Lyrics: 59 My Old Fashioned Girl
Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 59
MY OLD-FASHIONED GIRL.
Copyright, 1898, by Wm. B. Gray.
Words by Harry Dunkel. Music by Fred Hy Lands.
My girl's an old-fashioned girl-she says
in society she's out of place,
An old-fashioned girl with womanly ways,
And a winsome and womanly face,
A girl who is innocent, modest and sweet,
who is sensible, earnest and true,
The kind that will surely be obsolete
in another short year or two.
Chorus.
She's only an old-fashioned girl, you see.
And not in the least up to date.
But she is the kind of a girl for me.
The kind that I want for a mate.
I know it is very old-fashioned to say
Your girl is a saint from above,
But I own I am proud of her old-fashioned way,
And proud of her old-fashioned love.
She's not a girl who aspires to fame,
She does not ape man in her dress,
She does not read books that have a bad name,
Nor herald her views in the press,
She doesn't use slang or her manners forget.
Nor loudly expound Woman's Rights;
She shuns all the fads of the fashionable set.
And home is her great delight.- Chorus.