Title: American Old Time Song Lyrics
Subject: Traditional & Folk Music
Author: www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
Keywords: Old time music, American, oldtimey, bluegrass

Ten Minutes Too Late - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
TEN MINUTES TOO LATE. 
Certain fidgety folks, we have all of us met, Who are famous for being " too soon," For a two o'clock dejeuner a la fourchette, They are safe to turn up about noon. Punctuality's all very proper I know, But all hurry and worry I hate, So it always occurs, wherever I go, I'm exactly ten minutes too late! 
Chorus. Punctuality's all very proper I know, But all hurry and worry I hate, So it always occurs, that wherever I go, I'm exactly ten minutes too late! 
When I jump in a hansom, or climb in a bus, To be nicely in time for a train, I am half in a fever, and quite in a fuss, Tho' I feel that my efforts are vain; When I find myself safe in the station at last, And believe it's five minutes to eight, I observe with a sigh, that it's five minutes past, So I'm only ten minutes too late!-Chorus. 
I was once on a time very deeply in love, And I courted in verse, and prose, I obtained a big lock of her hair, and a glove, So I made up my mind to propose; But a cab drove away as I knock d at her door, And her answer decided my fate, For my rival had called there a little before, So that I was ten minutes too late!- Chorus. 
I should sing for a month, if I told in a song, The misfortunes I have to endure, From this habit that's haunted me all my life long, And will haunt me till death, I am sure; When my fitful career is approaching its end, And I lie in a critical state, It's no matter what physics my doctor may send. I shall take them ten minutes too late!-Chorus.