Dear little maid of sixteen
I'm here confessing you have me guessing
Never a girl have I seen so prepossessing
And yet serene i don't wish to trouble you
For a yes or no
Still, if you see what I mean
It's quite distressing to wonder so
Innocent ingenue baby
Say if I fell for you, baby
Would you not love me too, baby too?

Flappers are not so few, baby
Equally fair to view, baby
Willing to bill and coo, baby too

But there's a something, somewhere
Somehow smiling in your smile
That sets me winking, blinking
Thinking every little while
Won't you make a trial?

Innocent ingenue baby
Give me some kind of clue, baby
Tell me the answer, do, baby do

That little slant of your eyes
Is that negation or affirmation?
Delicate blushes and sighs
Are they damnation or paradise?
Though I seem inquisitive tell me, I implore
Are you a vamp in disguise a mere flirtation
Or something more? Innocent ingenue baby
Say if I fell for you, baby
Would you not love me too, baby too?

Flappers are not so few, baby
Equally fair to view, baby
Willing to bill and coo, baby too

But there's a something, somewhere
Somehow smiling in your smile
That sets me winking, blinking
Thinking every little while
Won't you make a trial?

Innocent ingenue baby
Give me some kind of clue, baby
Tell me the answer, do, baby do