In The Good Old Summer
Time - Extra Verses
Lyrics by Ren Shields, Music by
George Evans, Arranged by Theodore F. Morse
New York: Howley, Havaland, and
Dresser (1902)
Source: In The Good Old Summer Time,
Digital Commons, Connecticut College
Morse, Theodore F., "In
The Good Old Summer Time" (1902). Historic Sheet Music
Collection. 718.
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These lyrics were found on the sixth page of the 1902 (and later) sheet music:
[Verse 1]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
That’s when a Wilson high-ball
Is certainly divine;
With a bran-new suit and swell straw hat
I tell you a man feels fine.
But when it rains his name is mud
In the good old summer time.
[Chorus]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
Strolling thor’ the shady lanes,
With your baby mine;
You hold her hand and she holds yours
And that’s a very good sign
That she’s your tootsey wootsey in
The good old summer time.
[Verse 2]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
You go to the race-track
With a bet on something fine;
You bet on a horse that’s ten to one,
You play him with your last dime.
He generally comes in about quarter-past eight
In the good old summer time.
[Verse 3]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
When hubby he hears of the price of coal
He keeps swearing all the time;
But wife looks at him sweetly
With a smile that will not rhyme,
And says, “You can’t play pin-pong, John,
“In the good old summer time.”
[Verse 4]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
The sun affects some people
In a manner not divine;
A man got sun struck yesterday,
And he was a brother of mine.
The son it weighed about nine pounds
Pretty good for the summer time.
[Verse 5]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
You see young couples holding hands
In the bright moonshine.
They should give Central (Local) Park some other name;
Central (Local) Orchard would do very fine:
For there’s so many pairs found under the trees
In the good old summer time.
[Verse 6]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
The way that my wife and I get along
Is certainty divine.
Not once have we ever quarreled in our house,
Or had a fight of any kind;
We went out in the yard where there was more room,
In the good old summer time.
[Verse 7]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
The way they’ve raised the price of coal
I don’t like it at all, for mine;
A stop should be quickly put to them
Before the snow begins flyin’,
Or half of us will freeze to death
Before the next summer time.
[Verse 8]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
When a woman goes out shopping,
She goes all the way down the line;
She tries to cross the busy streets,
And thinks she’s doing fine,
And a trolley car hits her an awful rap,
In the good old summer time.
[Verse 9]
In the good old summer time,
You see a dog bark and cry,
And with froth hanging from his mouth
Snap at you as you pass by.
If he breaks into a dry-good store,
Why, that’s a very good sign
That what he wants is muslin,
In the good old summer time.
[Verse 10]
In the good old summer time,
With my girl I’d sit in the hall.
And she would always claim a kiss,
Whenever a star would fall.
For a while I did enjoy myself
And though it all very fine
Till she began ringing in lightning bugs,
In the good old summer time.
An additional Verse is located here but is
reproduced below.
[Verse 11]
In the good old summer time,
Since I’ve grown to be a man,
I go down to the seashore for a swim,
And for to work up a tan;
When a boy I’d run way from home to swim
And think it just divine;
And mother would see that I’d get well tanned,
In the good old summer time.
[Verse 12]
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
With George I would go riding,
And we’d have a jolly time.
Now, George he only had one arm,
And that’s a very good sign
That I had to do all the driving
In the good old summer time.
The additional verse found on the sheet music
is:
13.
In the good old summer time,
My children bother me
This morning when I went to work
I knew I was the father of three.
When I came back this evening
I discovered that I had nine.
They'd been eating green apples, and all doubled up,
In the good old summer time.