[Dixielandjazz] Sort Dress Gal

[Tony Orr]

another song from the same great session which also has obscure words is
"Everybody's Talking About Sammy" and it would also be good to have the
definitive words posted.

Just 8 titles recorded then. They don't do them like that any more.

Tony Orr
banjo...Melb

Robert Greenwood wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know the words to "Short Dress Gal",
> recorded by the great Sam Morgan Band of New Orleans
> in 1927? The words as far as I can figure them out are
> as follows, but what is the last line? It sounds
> something like "short dress over her thighs" but I
> can’t be sure. Help, anyone?
> Robert Greenwood
> UK
> 
> I knew a little girl
> Her name was Fee
> She’d flirt with every man
> That she did see
> She’d flirt with a man
> Called Mr Key
> She had a dress measured
> To her knee.
> She went to the river
> She couldn’t get across,
> She paid five dollars
> For an old cab horse.
> The horse wouldn’t pull
> She swapped it for a bull
> All she could hear
> The boys was sayin’
> Won’t you lower it babe
> Everybody’s lookin’
> Won’t you lower it babe
> Everyone can see
> Won’t you lower it babe
> Everybody’s lookin’
> ??????????????????????
> 
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