Looking for Mabel Normand

 Movies Were Movies

Music and Lyric by

Jerry Herman

Moderately

Movies were movies when   you paid a dime to escape, Cheering the hero and hiss ing the man in the cape, Romance and action and thrills,   Pardner, there’s gold in them hills. 

Movies were movies when during the titles you’d know you’d get a happy ending.   Dozens of blumdering cops in a thundering chase.  Getting a bang out of lemon meringue in the face. Bandits attacking a train, One little tramp with a cane 

Movies were movies were movies when  I ran the show.

Movies were movies when Pauline was tied to the  track after she trudged-through the ice with a babe on her back.

 Girls at the sea  shore would stand   All in a row in the sand. 

Roll-ing their stockings an inch and a quarter below  the

line of decency.  And  Swanson and Keaton and Dressler and William  S. Hart.  

No one pretended that what we were doing was

art.  We had some guts and some luck but we were just making a buck.

Movies were movies were movies when I ran the show.