Billy Murray - My Cosey Corner Girl (1905)

While other lovers may prefer more poetic locations for romance, Billy is quite content cuddling with his girl Rosie in a quaint corner. Recorded in January 1905. This song was included in the 1904 Broadway Musical, "The School Girl" where it was sung by George Grossmith Jr. In 1904/1905, both Henry Burr and Harry Macdonough released best-selling versions. Note how, in the first music card pictured in this video, how a lass of the day scratched out the name "Rosie" and wrote in her own; (or it may have been the fellow who wrote in his girlfriend's name). Written by Charles Noel Douglas and John W. Bratton. The lyrics are hard to make out in parts, so here they are: Beside the murmuring soft sea waves some lovers like to sit And watch the wide-winged seagulls soar o'er oceans full of bliss While others claim a country lane with moonlight bright above Is the ideal and only real and proper place to love By silvery streams some say love dreams take on an added zest Their every glance speaks of romance and kisses taste the best Then cheek to cheek on mountain peak some love to flirt and kiss But of all the lot, the choicest spot in my opinion's this.... In a little corner cosey, where I sit with my darling Rosie With her dear little hand in mine and gaze into eyes divine Ah, my cosey corner pillow, beats the moonlight, stream or billow And my head's in a whirl as I kiss each curl of my cosey corner girl