“You're a Little Too Small”

Description

Even very small girls won't consider the singer, saying "you're young I know, perhaps you may grow, At present you're a little too small." When he inherits a million and the girls call him he refuses because "at present I'm a little too small"

Notes

The description follows the McBride text. The Carolina Tarheels recording has the singer getting closer to marriage, without succeeding, but omits the inheritance.

Meade, Spottswood and Meade: _Country Music Sources_ by Guthrie T Meade Jr with Dick Spottswood and Douglas S. Meade (Chapel Hill, 2002), p. 445. They also cite Haun, Mildred, Cooke County [Tennesee?] Ballads and Songs (M.A. Thesis, Vanderbilt U., Nashville, Tenn., 1937)], p.431. - BS

Recordings

• Carolina Tar Heels, "You're a Little Too Small" (Victor V40007, 1928)

References

1. McBride 48, "A Little Too Small" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Roud #4349
3. BI, McB1048