C.W. Murphy 1908
Dan Lipton
Chorus: Oh! Oh! Antonio! He’s gone away Left me alonio All on my ownio I’d like to meet him with his new sweetheart Then up shall go Antonio and his ice cream cart. In quaint native dress an Italian maid Was deep in distress as the streets she strayed Searching in every part for her false sweetheart And his ice cream cart Her English was bad it cannot be denied And so to herself in Italian she cried So sad grew the plight of this fair young lass She’d faint at the sight of an ice cream glass She dreamed nigh ev’ry day he’d come back to stay But he’d fade away Her old hurdygurdy all day she’d parade And this she would sing to each tune that it played: She sought in despair for Antonio, And looked ev’rywhere that she thought he’d go. Soon she to pine began as each face she’d scan For her ice cream man. She faded away, but they say in the street The ghost of that girl in Italian repeats: