This Up-to-date Girl Of Mine - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
This Up-to-Date Girl of Mine. Copyright, 1806. by G. & E. Kennedy. By Richard R. Hanch. 
You talk about your maidens with hearts of gold, Your bleached blondes and dashing brunettes, But I've got a sweetheart that knocks 'em all cold, An up-to-date girl, you may bet. She wears flashy bloomers and carries a cane; She's a girl you don't meet every day: She has plenty of dough, and wherever we go, She will say: "Now, dear boy, let me pay." 
Chorus. She bets on the horses at all the race courses, her equal you never could find; Each day all the papers give space to her capers; She glories in poker, at billiards she's a corker, This up-to-date girl of mine. 
When luck goes against you, and you go broke, Your sweetheart will give you the mitt, And turn her attention to some other bloke; Your pleadings won't help you a hit. Now sometimes I fly just a little too high; I go broke, and my girl she will say: "Here's a thousand, old man. pay it back when you can, We must take in the races to-day.'-- Chorus. 
Now sometimes we go bathing down at the beach, You just ought to see the guys stare: For when she tries swimming, my girl is a peach, The fishes with her can't compare. We take in the op'ra, and after the show We go out to a cafe and dine: O, life is all pleasure with this little treasure, And there's no other girl quite like mine.- Chorus.