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WAIFS AND STRAYS
When you are a-courting or philandering.
Mabel, Maud and Ann, Nellie, May and Fan,
Keep your eyes open for the Snap Shot Man!
Mabel, Maud and Ann, Nellie, May and Fan,
Keep your eyes open for the Snap Shot Man!
Snap! Shots! Hear the shutter close!
What a world of roguishness the little snapper shows!
Click! Click! Caught you unaware—
Snap Shot Man’ll get you if you don’t take care!
What a world of roguishness the little snapper shows!
Click! Click! Caught you unaware—
Snap Shot Man’ll get you if you don’t take care!
Watch out, you, Sir, when your wife’s away,
When you take your “cousin” to see the play,
With best aisle seats, and in the bass drum row,
And holding her hand when all the lights are low.
Billy, Bob and Dan, Smith and Harrigan,
Keep your eyes open for the Snap Shot Man!
When you take your “cousin” to see the play,
With best aisle seats, and in the bass drum row,
And holding her hand when all the lights are low.
Billy, Bob and Dan, Smith and Harrigan,
Keep your eyes open for the Snap Shot Man!
Snap! Shots! Hear the snapper snap!
Got you just as safe as any squirrel in a trap.
Click! Click! Got you just as slick—
Cam’ra man’ll snap you if you don’t be quick!
Got you just as safe as any squirrel in a trap.
Click! Click! Got you just as slick—
Cam’ra man’ll snap you if you don’t be quick!
When you’re swimming in your bathing suit,
And Hubby’s in town, slaving like a brute,
And handsome young stranger, “Teach you how to swim?”
It’s not my affair, it’s up to you and him.
But, Adele and Pearl, in the water’s swirl,
Keep your eyes open for the Snap Shot Girl.
And Hubby’s in town, slaving like a brute,
And handsome young stranger, “Teach you how to swim?”
It’s not my affair, it’s up to you and him.
But, Adele and Pearl, in the water’s swirl,
Keep your eyes open for the Snap Shot Girl.
Snap! Shots! Just a button pressed—
Only seems a trifle, but the courts’ll do the rest.
Click! Click! Caught you P. Q. D.
Snap Shot Girl’ll get you if you trifle in the sea.
Only seems a trifle, but the courts’ll do the rest.
Click! Click! Caught you P. Q. D.
Snap Shot Girl’ll get you if you trifle in the sea.
In Yucatan, of course owes its inspiration to O. Henry’s sojourn in the exiles’ haven, Honduras. But
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