Don't You Want a Paper, Dearie?

[Verse]
 * By the seashore, close together sitting,
 * Were youth and miss.
 * Time was short, the hours were swiftly flitting:
 * How they wished a kiss!


 * Other eyes were looking at them shyly,
 * Till the maid blushed red!
 * Then he bought a paper and, so slyly,
 * To the maid he said:

[Refrain]
 * Don't you want a paper, dearie?
 * Read it through and through.
 * Tales of war and tales of money,
 * Things that people do;


 * Tales of lovers true forever,
 * Just like me and you!
 * Look a little closer, dearie,
 * That's in the paper too.

[Verse]
 * So they made believe to read the paper:
 * Clever little game!
 * Till the rest observed their little caper,
 * Thought they'd try the same.


 * Ev'ryone a paper seem'd a-needing,
 * News boys humm'd the tune.
 * Then they sat in couples, closely reading,
 * All the afternoon.