The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store
The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store (abbreviated as Gay Young Clerk in a Dry-goods Store or Gay Young Clerk in the music sheets) is a song published in 1868 by Will. S. Hays.
Chorus
edit- Augustus Dolphus is his name,
- from Skiddy-ma-dink they say he came,
- He's a handsome man and he's proud and poor,
- This gay young clerk in the Dry-Good Store
Lyrics
edit- O listen now and I'll sing a song, How are you ladies, Howdy;
- I'll slug it all, for it wont take long, Ah! ladies haha!
- It's about a chap, perhaps you know,
- I'm told he is "Nobody's beau"
- But maybe you all knew that before,
- He's a lively clerk in a Dry-Goods Store
- His eyes they are of a dark sky-blue, How aer you ladies, Howdy;
- His hair light brown and his mustache too, Ah! ladies haha!
- And he wears eye glasses on his nose,
- And he never looks down at his toes,
- For fear he'll fall on a cellar door,
- This dashing clerk in a Dry-Goods Store.
- He wears side whiskers on his jaws, How are you ladies, Howdy,
- Wont none of you hear him for his cause, Ah! ladies haha!
- Why almost every lady knows
- He's a nice young man, For he wears good clothes,
- He's a handsome chap as I said before,
- He's a gay young clerk in a Dry-Goods Store.
- He smiles at all the girls he meets, How are you ladies, Howdy;
- And you smile at him on the crowded streets, Ah! ladies haha!
- Why don't you make him "come to taw"
- I know he wants a mother-in-law,
- Do as your parents did before,
- You.... and the clerk in the Dry-Goods Store.