From the 1916 show “Chu-Chin-Chow”.
Words and music by Frederic Norton.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- People have slandered our love serene
Laughed at your penchant for me
Said you were too old to love
A mean Libel on thy belle and thee
Still, we’re alone, you are my own
Bone of contention to be
Refrain
Youth is the time for loving
So poets always say
The contrary we’re proving
Look at us two today
Love has no charm, no meaning
Till man has reached his prime
Surely ’tis so, You ought to know
Any time’s kissing time
2. Timid as any gazelle am I
Here would I be, yet afar
Now there is only the moon to spy
No one can guess where we are
You are my deep Little black sheep
Ali, my Ali, Baba!
Sung here by Alejandro Murgia: