Intro:
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verse 1
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Here of late I feel so strange I'm happy and I'm sad
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The way my feelings are sometimes I think they'll drive me mad
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A pretty little girl with frizzy curls came here a week ago
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To work upon the tel -e- phone, And sh'said, hello, hello
verse 2
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Hello, hello, her sweet hello, her voice like music rings
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It's sweeter than the whippoorwill, that in the moonlight sings
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As the bell boy here at this hotel I'm always on the go
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And then she'll ring that telephone, and say hello, hello
verse 3
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I haven't spoken to her yet, I've been in such a daze
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Although sometimes she looks at me, with a sort of a distant gaze
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That I feel so weak, I cannot speak, my heart is beating so
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And then she'll ring that telephone, and say hello, hello
Instrumental
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verse 4
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I see her as she walks along in sunshine and in rain
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I can hear her midst the jangle of the elevated train
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I'd buy for us a little place where honeysuckle grow
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She could meet me at the garden gate and say hello, hello
verse 5
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In about a year, she married me and then we settled down
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In a pretty little bungalow not very far from town
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At night as I go home from work my heart is beating so
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She'll kiss me at the door and say hello, hello, hello