I’M A LITTLE PRAIRIE FLOWER

(Leslie Sarony, Leslie Holmes)


As recorded by:
Jack Harris & His Orchestra
V. Elsie Carlisle
Recorded 25th October 1937

Also recorded by:
The Two Leslies



Why was I born so beautiful
Why was I born so small
Why was I born so beautiful
Why was I born at all

I’m a little prairie flower
Growing wilder every hour
Nobody cares to cultivate me 
So I’m as wild as wild can be
(She’s as wild as she can be)

My wildness is a thing to which
There seems to be no stop
Last night I smacked a jelly 
just to hear the thing go flop

So the boys give me bananas
And they say I’m rather cute
But I’m a little devil
When I’m full of passion fruit

I’m a little prairie flower
Growing wilder every hour
Nobody cares to cultivate me 
So I’m as wild as wild can be
(She’s as wild as she can be)

A lot of cows stood in a field
And slowly chewed the cud
One old cow caught me unawares
And nipped me in the bud

Oh two cats stood on our garden wall
The moon was bright and clear
The tabby cat said, “nark it, Tom,
You can’t do that there ‘ere.”

I’m a little prairie flower
Growing wilder every hour
Nobody cares to cultivate me 
So I’m as wild as wild can be
(She’s as wild as she can be)

Now Jack and Jill went up the hill
And Jill came down quite dizzy
But next day Jack went up again
And took her sister Lizzie

I’m a little prairie flower
Growing wilder every hour
Nobody cares to cultivate me 
So I’m as wild as wild can be
(She’s as wild as she can be)

My bloom has gone, I’ve run to seed
For others I’ll make way
So like the good old soldier
I must gently fade away

I’m a little prairie flower
Growing wilder every hour
Nobody cares to cultivate me 
So I’m as wild as wild can be
(She’s as wild as she can be)

(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - August 2013)