I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl)
Lyrics by William Dillon
Key: C
Music by Harry Von Tilzer
Copyright 1911

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File Created 11/27/2014
File Edited 07/25/2019

Verse 1:

F
When I was a boy
          C7
My mother often said to me
Get married boy and see
    F              C7
How happy you will be

F
I have looked all over
       C            A7
But no girlie can I find
    G7
Who seems to be just like
           C
The little girl I have in mind

F6     Gb6     G6    Ab6
I will have to look a-round
A6        Bb6       B6     C6
Until the right one I have found

Chorus:

F             Bb
I want a girl just like the girl that
F       C7       F    F7
married dear old  dad,
Bb              F
She was a pearl  and the only girl that
G7             C7
Daddy ever had,

  F                            A7
A real old-fashioned girl with  heart so true,
Bb                   A7
One who loves nobody else but you
   F             Bb
Oh I want a girl just like the girl that
F       C7        F
married  dear old Dad.

Verse 2:

F
 By the old mill stream
             C7
There sits a couple old and gray
Though years have rolled away
      F                  C7
Their hearts are young today

F
Mother dear looks up at dad
          C            A7
With love light in her  eye
   G7
He steals a kiss, a fond embrace
      C
While  evening breezes sigh

F6         Gb6      G6  Ab6
They’re as happy as can be,
A6            Bb6     B6       C6
So that’s the kind of love for me

Repeat Chorus:

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