She Had To Go And Lose It At The Astor

Album: Harry Roy & His Band (1939)
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  • [Spoken]
    We'd like to tell you a story about a young girl, about 18 years old, about five feet two, and about to go out. Now, her mother, realizing it was her first time out with a young man, called her into the bedroom and said, "Minnie, you're all dressed up in your finery, your very best clothes, and you look beautiful, you're gorgeous, you're alluring (you look swell, baby), and now Minnie I want you to remember everything I've always told you, and above all I want you to be very, very careful.


    But she had to go and lose it at the Astor
    She didn't take her mother's good advice
    Now there aren't so many girls today who have one
    And she'd never let it go for any price

    They searched the place from penthouse to the cellar
    In every room and underneath each bed
    Once they thought they saw it lying on a pillow
    But they found it belonged to someone else instead

    But she had to go and lose it at the Astor
    She didn't know exactly whom to blame
    And she couldn't say just how or when she lost it
    She only knew she had it when she came

    They questioned all the bellboys and the porter
    The chef appeared to be the guilty guy
    And the doorman also acted quite suspicious
    But he coyly said, "I'm sure it wasn't I"

    But she had to go and lose it at the Astor
    It nearly killed her mother and her dad
    Now they felt as bad about the thing as she did
    After all it was the only one she had

    They just about completed all their searching
    When the chauffeur walked up with it in his hand
    All they did was stand and gape, there was Minnie's sable cape
    And she thought that she had lost it at the Astor Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • George from Vancouver, CanadaHis other 'hit' was "My Girl's Pu--y"; very much an intended double entendre, so I would figure this one is, too. Nothing wrong with double entendre songs, if they've a carchy beat!
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