Say,
Bill, do you remember
Sally Brown
that we went to school with?
Yes, Ernie, I do.
Well, wasn't she a dumb dora in school,
especially in arithmetic?
Well, she might have been dumb at school,
Ernie,
but you should see her
subtract now.
Subtract?
What do you mean, subtract?
Well, she takes 10 from one
and 20 from another one.
Just a girl what knows her onions,
Ernie.
Hey, Bill, you know,
on Broadway the other day,
I met someone you know.
Peggy Joyce?
Is she in town?
Don't be a fool, it was Sally Brown.
Oh, you mean the village queen?
Yeah, she's in a Ziegfeld show.
That's so.
And she's made quite a name.
Well, she's just a chorus dame.
Yes, and she rides in a limousine.
Aw, she knows her onions.
Well, tell me please just
what you mean.
Aw, she knows her onions.
She's just a farmer's daughter,
brought up in Iowa.
Her father never taught her
the things she knows today.
You say she knows her onions.
I don't quite get your talk.
I'll bet she has no bunions.
Why?
She don't get out and walk.
Ah, she's got meek and stable fur.
And all she gets is 40 perks.
She's a girl who knows her onions.
Well, by gum, that gal was dumb
back in the village school.
She has changed somehow.
That gal's well -educated now.
The teacher said her
brain was dead.
That teacher was a fool.
She's smart, I'm telling you.
Well, I'll give her credit, too,
because she's got diamonds
in her ear.
She knows her grocery,
and you ought to see her lavalier.
She knows her vegetables,
this sim ple country maiden,
from fields of new -mown hay.
And you should see her parading
along the gay -white way.
She stays out at 11,
right in the city's whirl.
Oh, she believes that heaven
protects the working oil.
Ah!
She's got lots of stocks and bonds.
Gentlemen prefer the blondes.
She's a girl who knows her onions.
She's got money in the bank.
She knows her onions.
No one but herself can thank.
She knows her onions.
She hates finale hoppers.
She don't like college boys.
She likes the sugar poppers.
Who buy expensive toys.
She hardly ever dances
with the collegiate chic.
She don't take any chances.
She likes them old and weak.
Ah, never goes on auto dates
without taking roller skates.
She's a girl who knows her onions.
Ah.