Mabel Can A Body Tell A Body - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
MABEL(Can a Body Tell a Body) Copyright, 1894, by T. B. Harms & Co. Words and Music by Harry Dacre. 
Have you seen her? Have you seen her? She's as fair us a newly-blown flower; She is my girl, such a shy girl, Cries and laughs in one hour. On inspection she's perfection, She is free from all blemish or scar; And if you don't believe that I love the dear girl, You can call 'round And ask her mamma. 
Chorus. But Mabel, Mabel, don't care for me, All my good points Mabel's unable to see; When I speak, she makes no reply; Can a body te I a body, what's the reason why? 
I adore her, bow before her, I have worshipped her on bended knee; Idolizing, yet surprising, She's no preference for me. Though a dear girl, she's a queer girl, And I feel that I'm treated too bad; But the lady I speak of is not two months old, She is my girl because I'm her dad. 
Chorus. Still Mabel, Mabel, don't care for me, All my good points Mabel's unable to see; When I speak, she makes no reply; She's my latest baby daughter-that's the reason why,