One evening getting dark we first met at the park A-sittin' by the fountain all alone I lifted up my hat and then began to chat She said she'd 'low me to see her at her home Such a star I've never seen She's as pretty as a queen She's as perfect as an angel from above If she'd only be my wife I'd live happy all my life With that aggravating beauty Lula Walls If she was only mine, I would build a house so fine And around it so many fences tall It would make me jealous free that no one else but me Could gaze upon that beauty Lula Walls Such a star I've never seen She's as pretty as a queen She's as perfect as an angel from above If she'd only be my wife I'd live happy all my life With that aggravating beauty Lula Walls [Instrumental break] One evening getting late I met her at the gate I asked her if she'd wed me in the fall She only turned away and nothing would she say That aggravating beauty Lula Walls Such a star I've never seen She's as pretty as a queen She's as perfect as an angel from above If she'd only be my wife I'd live happy all my life With that aggravating beauty Lula Walls