Palesteena

Palesteena - The New Century Ragtime Orchestra

In the Bronx of New York City

Lived a girl she's not so pretty

Lena is her name

Such a clever girl is Lena

How she played her concertina

Really it's a shame

She's such a good musician

She got a swell position

To go across the sea to entertain

And so they shipped poor Lena

Way out to Palesteena

And now they tell me she don't look the same

Lena is the Queen o' Palesteena

Just because she plays the concertina

She plays it day and night

She plays with all her might

She never gets it right

But how I love it want more of it

I heard her play once or twice

Oh Murder Still it was nice

She got fat but she got leaner

Pushing on her concertina

Down old Palesteena way