her old hurdy-gurdy all day she'd parade -- 1908

Speranza 1908 O o Antonio he's gone away left me alone-ee-o all on my own-ee-o I want to meet him with his new sweetheart then up will go Antonio and his ice-cream cart in quaint native dress an Italian maid was seeping distress as the streets she strayed searching in every part for her bold sweetheart and his ice-cream cart her English was bad it cannot be denied and so to herself in Italian she cried. so sad grew the plight of this fair young lass She'd faint at the sight of an ice-cream she dreamed nigh every day he'd come back to stay then he'd fade away. her old hurdy-gurdy all day she'd parade and this she would sing, sweet tunes that it played.