<P> Since the song refers to a young man wanting to find a wife like his mother, it is perhaps inevitable that some commentators have suggested, with varying degrees of seriousness, that the song's title and lyrics promote an Oedipus complex . </P> <P> Verse When I was a boy my mother often said to me Get married boy and see how happy you will be I have looked all over, but no girlie can I find, Who seems to be just like the little girl I have in mind, I will have to look around until the right one I have found . Chorus I want a girl, just like the girl that married dear old Dad She was a pearl and the only girl that Daddy ever had, A good old fashioned girl with heart so true, One who loves nobody else but you, I want a girl, just like the girl that married dear old Dad . Verse 2 By the old mill stream there sit a couple old and gray, Though years have rolled away, their hearts are young today . Mother dear looks up at Dad with love light in her eye, He steals a kiss, a fond embrace, while ev'ning breezes sigh, They're as happy as can be, so that's the kind of love for me . </P> <Ul> <Li> Columbia Quartette (29 May 1911) </Li> <Li> American Quartet with Walter Van Brunt (27 July 1911) </Li> <Li> Dorothy Ward (January 1913) </Li> <Li> Ella Retford (1920s?) </Li> <Li> Dan Hornsby Trio (1928) Columbia </Li> <Li> Al Jolson (28 November 1947) </Li> <Li> Frankie Carle (1948) </Li> <Li> Four Lovers (1956) </Li> <Li> Eddie Gluskin (2013) </Li> <Li> Singing Mushrooms from Kings Dominion (1975 - 1990; 2014 -) </Li> </Ul> <Li> Columbia Quartette (29 May 1911) </Li>

I want a girl just like the one that married my dad