Put the Blame on Mame
Rita Hayworth in Charles Vidor’s Gilda (1946).
“When they had the earthquake - in San Francisco - back in 19`6
They said that old mother nature - was up to her old tricks.
That’s the story that went around, but here’s the real lowdown,
Put the blame on mame boys, put the blame on mame.
One night she started to - shim and shake -
that brought on the `Frisco quake
So you can,
Put the blame on mame boys, put the blame on mame.
They once had a shootin’ up in the Klondike when they got Dan McGrew
Folks were puttin’ the blame on the lady known as Lew
That’s the story that went around, but here’s the real lowdown,
Put the blame on mame boys, put the blame on mame.
Mame did a dance called the Hichy-koo,
That’s the thing that slew McGrew
So you can,
Put the blame on mame boys, PUT-THE-BLAME-ON-MAME”


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