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! + 