C.W. Murphy & Dan Lipton 1908
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 every day he’d come back to stay But he’d fade away
Her old hurdy-gurdy all day she’d parade
And this she would sing to each tune that it played:
She sought in despair for Antonio,
And looked everywhere 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: