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CATALOG #4757

Barney Google

Recording courtesy of UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

Transcript

I don't know what politician you have reference to, well it isn't Mr. Bryan, then it must be Mr. Hughes.

I've got a hunter too, that's what I'm going to introduce. Who's that? Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes.

Barney Google had a wife which I'm beside. He used to barney fourty-four, now he's living with his horse. Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes.

When the horses ran that day, Bob Cluck ran the other way. Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes. Who's the greatest lover that this country ever knew?

And who's the man that Valentino hates his hat off to? No it isn't Douglas Fairbanks that the ladies hate. It's Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes.

Barney Google is the guy who never buys. Women take him out to dine, then he steals the waiter's dime. Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes.

Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes. Barney Google is the luckiest of guys. If he fell into the mud, he'd come up with a diamond set.

Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes. Who's the greatest fire chief this country ever saw? And who's the man who used to hear the blazing buildings roar?

Any time a house is burning, and the flames leap all about, they tell me to who goes first and puts the fire out. Why it's Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes. Barney Google, told his horse to win the prize.

He got odds of ten to eight. Bob Cluck came in three days late. Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes.

Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes. Barney Google, right in the paradise. When St.

Peter saw his painting, he said go to the other place. Barney Google, with his goo goo googly eyes. Goo goo googly.

Goo goo googly. Goo goo googly eyes.

Transcribed by AI from the recording above. These are noisy hundred-year-old cylinders, so expect misheard words and the occasional invented line — trust your ears over the text.

Format
Blue Amberol
Release year
1923
Duration
3:31

Audio public domain, courtesy of the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive. Transcript CC BY 4.0. Free to reuse, including commercially, with credit.

Storage location
3

About the artist

Billy Jones and Ernest Hare
Radio Digest, 1924
Public domain

Billy Jones and Ernest Hare partnership from 1920

Billed as “The Happiness Boys”, the duo were among the first performers to become famous through radio rather than the stage, with a weekly sponsored programme from 1923. Their records are comic songs and patter, and they belong to the last years of the cylinder — by their time the format was nearly finished.

Written from Wikipedia. Corrections welcome.