A popular song from 1905.
Words by Arthur J. Lamb.
Music by Albert Von Tilzer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- The moon looked gaily down
He didn’t wear a frown
A happy pair was spooning there
They sat upon the sands
And held each other’s hands
For nothing else they seemed to care
He thought “I love her true
I don’t know what to do
Or how to tell, I love her well”
Soon the boy was asking
“Sweetheart can you guess
What would bring me happiness?”
Chorus
Take a cunning little cottage
You will find there’s lots of room
Take a pretty little garden
Where sweet flowers bloom
Take a dainty little girlie
One who says she’s fond of you
Then, you settle down to love her
That’s a picnic for two
- The fishes in the sea
Were swimming round in glee
It seemed absurd, upon my word
And many an ocean wave
Said, “Why don’t they behave?
Such foolish talk, we never heard”
The girlie’s head was bowed
The moon hid ‘neath a cloud
He said, “What bliss! They want to kiss”
Soon the moon was winking
With a merry face
When he saw the two embrace
Sung here by Vancha March: