Manhattan Dance Makers (California Ramblers led by Rollini?)<br /><br />"Horses"<br /><br />Harmony 155-H <br /><br />Vocal by Irving Kaufman<br /><br />Richard A. Whiting & Byron Gay song<br /><br />Recorded on March 17, 1926.<br /><br />Music by Byron Gay<br /><br />Lyrics by Richard A. Whiting<br /><br />Crazy over horses, horses, horses.<br />Nutty over horses, horses, horses.<br />Goofy over horses, horses, horses. She's a little wild.<br /><br />Daffy over horses, horses, horses.<br />Silly over horses, horses, horses.<br />Once I heard her call me "Spark Plug"--"Brown Eyes," too.<br />Guess she thinks I'm a horse's "Barney Google."<br /> <br />At the altar, altar, altar, maybe she will falter, falter, falter.<br />Then I'll get a halter, halter, halter just to make her mine.<br /><br />A woman's "no" means "yes," I guess.<br />A horse's neigh is a horse's "yes."<br /><br />Oh, it's horses, horses, just a lot <br />of horses, horses, horses all the time.<br /><br />And ev'ry time she drinks, by heck,<br />She always drinks a horse's neck.<br />Oh, it's horses, horses, just a lot o' horses,<br />Horses, horses all the time.<br /><br />The comic song "Horses" makes demands on the vocalist due to the rapid patter.<br /><br />The song is about a man who takes his girlfriend to the races and is amazed by her obsession with horses. <br /><br />"Spark Plug" is the name of the horse in the American comic strip Barney Google. <br /><br />The man hopes that his girl will falter in her love for horses. He plans to get a halter (a device used to lead or tie up horses) to help her decide to marry him.<br /><br />The bride's veil will look like a horse's tail.
