Old Fashioned Buggy Ride
Words by Harry Williams
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne
Published 1907

[verse 1]
Ev'ry day in the year
When the weather is clear,
I go out in an automobile
As I spin down the line
With my sweet baby mine,
Just imagine how happy we feel
But my grand father dear
Look'd at me with a sneer,
Then he said as his eyes danced with joy
"All your new fangled ways
Are not in it these days
With the way I made love when a boy"

[chorus]
You may talk of your Mollies and trolleys,
And your automobile honey moon
They are all very fine, but if you have the time,
There's a far better way you can spoon
Take a walk to a nice liv'ry stable,
Get a horse that you don't have to guide
You're at ease, no one sees, you can squeeze all you please,
On an old-fashioned buggy ride.

[verse 2]
We said, "Grand dad, you're late,
You are way out of date
Why, the auto's the thing of today"
Then we turned on the pow'r
And in just half an hour
We were thirty or more miles away
But there soon came a flash
And a terrible crash,
Then we work'd on the thing half the night
All the kids on the course
Hollered out, "Get a horse"
And we said "I guess grand dad was right"

[repeat chorus]