Hey Mister! You’re losing your pants!

       By Steve Cichon
       steve@buffalostories.com
       @stevebuffalo

Since finding a pair of suspenders in the attic the other day, I’ve been walking around singing the parts of a song that Grandpa Coyle used to sing all the time– only I couldn’t remember all the words.

Here’s Gramps drinking Red Dog wearing suspenders, c.2008

la la la la la la suspenders…
la la la la la la la dance…
.la la la la la la la la la…..
Hey Mister, you’re losing your pants!

After spending an hour or so with Google and a couple of online archive sites, I finally came up with the song.

Here are the lyrics from as printed as “an oldie” in a 1940 newspaper.

"One night I forgot my suspenders,
and took my girl out to a dance.
While dancing I heard someone holler,
Hey Mister! you're losing your pants!"