American Old Time Song Lyrics: 22 Such An Education Has My Mary Ann

Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 22

Such an Education Has My Mary Ann.

My Mary Ann's a teacher in a great big public school,
She gets one thousand dollars every year,
She has charge of all the children, you'd never find a fool,
For Mary gives them all the proper steer.
Oh! she's studied Greek and Latin, real French and Timbuctoo,
German, Spanish, Turk and Hindoostan,
Portuguese, Irish and Jerusalem Hebrew,
Such an education has my Mary Ann.

Chorus.
She's a darling, she's a daisy,
She's a dumpling, she's a lamb;
You should hear her play the pi-and,
Such an education has my Mary Ann.

My Mary Ann's a lady, no contemptible coquette.
When I see her sure my heart goes in a drame;
She is thoroughly conversant with the art of etiquette,
And at cards she'd beat old Hoyle himself a game. I
Oh, she'd play you whist or cribbage, forty-five or casino,
And she'd dale the cards like any gamblin' man,
Poker or peanuckle. or Sanky oh Pedro,
Such an education has my Mary Ann.-Chorus.

My Mary Ann's a dancer in the art of terpsichore,
You would see her forward four and alamandi;
She'd break up all the lumber you'd put down on the floor,
Such a heavy stepper is my Mary Ann.
Oh, she'd dance you the mazourka, a polka or quadrille.
Heel or jig, or shuffle in the sand, schottische or the German,
You couldn't keep her still,
Such an education had my Mary Ann.-Chorus.