The New Cabaret Girl

That little yaller gal
Wid blue-green eyes:
If her daddy ain’t white
Would be a surprise.

She don’t drink gin
An’ she don’t like corn.
I asked her one night
Where she was born.

An’ she say, Honey,
I don’t know
Where I come from
Or where I go.

That crazy little yaller gal
Wid blue-green eyes:
If her daddy ain’t ’fay
Would be a surprise.

An’ there she sets a cryin’
In de cabaret
A lookin’ all sad
When she ought to play.

My God, I says,
You can’t live that way!
Babe, you can’t
Live that way!