Victor Herbert — She Was a Country Girl

When Miss Evaline Cook at the city took a look There on her a very pleasant lady smiled; And she said to her, "My dear, will you hold this infant here Till I go and buy a biscuit for this child?" But Eva answered "Nix! Though such amateurish tricks Often catch the country bumpkin and beguile 'em Your child I will not mind So run along and find Somebody else to act as an asylum!" Oh, she was a country girl Her switch was so full of hay But when she had to cross the street She always knew the way! Oh, she was a country girl But well did she know her book; If in search of a jay You had best stay away From sweet Evaline McCook! When Miss Evaline Cook at the city took a look A pocketbook upon the street she spied; The people passed it by for 'twas April fool, that's why To take that pocketbook nobody tried "Ah, an ancient trick like that," They remarked, "is quite too flat; That purse is filled with nothing else but hay." Then up from the cold cold ground Eva plucked the purse and found The sum of twenty thousand dollars in it Oh, she was a country girl Her switch was so full of hay But when she had to cross the street She always knew the way! Oh, she was a country girl But well did she know her book; If in search of a jay You had best stay away From sweet Evaline McCook!