He Wooed Her and Wooed Her and Wooed Her lyrics

He was a lad in his twenties

She was a girl in her teens

The time, it was when there was spring in the air

And everyone knows what that means!

Without any doubt he decided

That she was the one in his life

So he knelt on his right knee and twisted his left

And asked her if she'd be his wife

So he wooed her and wooed her and wooed her

She wouldn't say yes there and then

'Cause her mother had said she was much too young

So he wooed her and wooed her again

He was a lad in his thirties

She in her twenty-third year

He still loved the girl, but she still answered no

So he dropped a strong, silent tear

And when he was passing his forties

She said, "I want you for my own

But it would break mother's heart now

if we were to wed

As she'd hate to be left all alone"

So he wooed her and wooed her and wooed her

She wouldn't say yes there and then

'Cause her mother had said she was much too young

So he wooed her and wooed her again

He was a lad in his sixties

She was about fifty-three

And he was still crazy to wed, but her ma

Still warbled "The Isle of Capri"

And when he had grown to his eighties

He told her that he'd done his best

And although he'd been faithful for sixty-nine years

He was only a man like the rest

So he wooed her and wooed her and wooed her

She wouldn't say yes there and then

'Cause her mother had said she was much too young

So he wooed her and wooed her again

He was a hundred and twenty

And she about a hundred and four

And he had entirely given up hope

Till her ma went and married once more

At last the girl said she would wed him

And though it may sound very weird

The poor stork had waited for so many years

That it flew down the flu with a beard

Still he wooed her and wooed her and wooed her

The wooing had gone to his brain

And he had to lay off for a year or two

Before he could woo her again

• Artist:Elsie Carlisle