(Don’t you want to come along?)
from the 1910 operatic comedy “The Ladies Lion”
words and music by Thos. S. Allen.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There are some people in this world
Who fear they will go mad
I know that I am foolish
And to tell the truth I’m glad
One day a fellow madman
Swore that he would take my life
He raised a club and said
“Now tell me why you kissed my wife”
Chorus
I’m going crazy
Don’t you want to come along
We’ll live in a madhouse over the hills
And play in the fields with the daffydills
I’m going crazy, there’s something wrong
Your wife I kissed I will admit
But listen please, don’t have a fit
There was a reason, this is it
I’m going crazy
Don’t you want to come along
- I went to see a show one night
They called Salome dance
If she had clothes she left them home
‘Twas taking quite a chance
She wiggled here, she wiggled there
Then wiggled more and more
And as I started up the aisle
I shouted near the door
Chorus
I’m going crazy
Don’t you want to come along
We’ll live in a madhouse over the hills
And play in the fields with the daffydills
I’m going crazy, there’s something wrong
If in our good forefathers’ day
We did a dance that went that way
What do you think the folks would say
I’m going crazy
Don’t you want to come along
- One day a lady fell upon the street
And hurt her knee
They brought her in the building
Where my office chanced to be
The Doctor was across the hall
But in my room they came
And said please look and tell me
If you think I will be lame
Chorus
I’m going crazy
Don’t you want to come along
We’ll live in a madhouse over the hills
And play in the fields with the daffydills
I’m going crazy, there’s something wrong
She raised her skirts and said
“Oh my! What is it please?”
“A beaut” said I
But I’m no doctor that is why
I’m going crazy
Don’t you want to come along
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: