[Otto:]
Maiden who brings the beer,
Won't you let me marry you, my dear?
Tell me that you will be mine at length!
If you can be married on the strength!
[Elsa:]
I don't think I will wed,
I might like another man instead;
But I'll tell you what I will do,
Walk out with you--
[Students:]
Walk out with you!
[Elsa:]
If you won't, I'll choose from the rest--
[Students:]
A big policeman is best!
[Both:]
There's no doubt at all about
The fact that we are walking out!
Strolling and patrolling
Till the "lights out" drum is rolling
Down by-ways, off the highways,
Where there's no one near to see!
[Chorus:]
Underneath a shady tree!
[Both:]
Straying and delaying,
In the park where bands are playing,
Both linking arms and winking,
Oh! you must go walking out with me!
[Chorus:]
Strolling and patrolling
Till the "lights out" drum is rolling
Down by-ways, off the highways,
Where there's no one near to see!
[Both:]
Though perhaps there ought to be!
[Chorus:]
Straying and delaying,
In the park where bands are playing,
Both linking arms and winking,
Oh! you must go walking out with me!
[Otto:]
If any night or day
Duty calls your soldier love away,
I shall pine to see your face divine!
Couldn't we be there to help you pine?
[Elsa:]
When I am left alone,
I shall long to welcome back my own!
None to comfort me I shall find--
None who is kind--
[Soldiers:]
We do not mind!
[Elsa:]
I shall cry for fancies and fears--
[Soldiers:]
We'll come and help dry those tears!
[Both:]
There's no doubt I/you need not pout
When it's not my/your Sunday out!
Strolling and patrolling
Till the "lights out" drum is rolling
Down by-ways, off the highways,
Where there's no one near to see!
[Chorus:]
Two is company, not three!
[Both:]
Straying and delaying,
In the park where bands are playing,
Both linking arms and winking,
Oh! you must go walking out with me!
[Chorus:]
Strolling and patrolling
Till the "lights out" drum is rolling
Down by-ways, off the highways,
Where there's no one near to see!
[Both:]
And you don't get back for tea!
[Chorus:]
Straying and delaying,
In the park where bands are playing,
Both linking arms and winking,
Oh! you must go walking out with me!