I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl)

DESCRIPTION: "When I was a boy my mother often said to me, Get married boy and see, how happy you will be, I have looked all over, but no girlie can I find" who is what he wants, because "I want a girl, just like the girl that married dear old Dad."
AUTHOR: Words: William Dillon / Music: Harry von Tilzer (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1911 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: mother courting
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 345, "I Want a Girl" (notes only)
BoyScoutSongbook1997, p. 33, "I Want a Girl" (1 text)
Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic, pp. 28290 "I Want a Girl (Just like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)"
DT, WANTGIRL*
NOTES [53 words]: Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 293, estimates that this was the fourth most popular song in America in 1911, peaking at #2 in November 1911 (#1 for the year being Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band"). - RBW
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File: ACSF345I

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