A flirting proposal from 1908.
words by Edward Madden
music by Theodore Morse
The sheet music:
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Lyrics
- Your eyes are shining, you say you’re blue
My heart is pining, I’m lonely too
There comes a yearning that keeps returning
Perhaps I’m learning how to woo
A tender feeling of something new
Comes softly stealing to me from you
If this sensation is admiration
I wish you’d tell me what to do
Chorus
I’ve taken quite a fancy to you, dear
I’d like to paddle your canoe
And I fancy you could like me, too, dear
Or you wouldn’t act the way you do
There’s no one in this wide, wide, world, dear
Whose tootsey wootsey I would be
If you’d only take a fancy, dearie
To a fancy little girl like me
- They say that spooning is just a slice
Of honey mooning, and that’s so nice
You never weary, they tell me dearie
That spooning once, means spooning twice
See what you’re missing by being shy
A lot of kissing, then, by and by
We’ll find a love spot to tie the love knot
Where we can bill and coo and sigh
Sung here by Fred Feild: