Take a Little Ride With Me
(A Conversation with Music Between an Automobilist and a Dairy Maid)
Words selected by Jack Drislane
Music collected by Theodore Morse
Published 1906

[verse 1]
(He) "Hello! girlie where're you going in your pretty gingham gown,
And your cheeks just like roses take a ride into town?"
(She) "Sir, I'm just a going milking and I'm going all alone,
Can't you see that I'm busy and my time's not my own?"
(He) "If you will jump right in, we'll take a nice long spin,
And roam a way o'er hills and dales,
Around the mountains thro' the vales."
(She) "I'd like to go with you, I like you, 'deed I do,
but's near milking time, I must be on my way."
(He) "Girlie, maybe you know best."
(She) "Tell me what would you suggest?"

[chorus]
(He) "come and take a little ride with me"
(She) I'd like to "Ill aks Pa, perhaps he may agree
(He) "Don't mind Pa, As we glide in my 'mobile you'll see
that we'll be happy if you take a ride with me."

[verse 2]
(She) "Pa don't like those automobiles as they fly a-past our farm,
And has taught me to shun them, just to keep out of harm,"
(He) "Still with Cupid for a driver I am sure you'd like the ride,
Life will seem full of sunshine just with you by my side,"
(She) "I'd really like to go, but then Papa must know,
Perhaps he'd be so mad he's scold, And I am sure he'd think me bold."
(He) "I'll only be too glad to go and ask your Dad,
if he says "yes" then will you ride thro' life with me?"
(She) "Papa will consent I Hope?"
(He) "If he don't then we'll elope."

[repeat chorus]