Meanderin’

From the musical “Forty Thieves”, 1922.
Words by Laddie Cliff and Melville Gideon.
Music by Melville Gideon.


The sheet music:


Accompaniment:


Lyrics

  1. Happy, happy, happy me
    I’m full of ecstasy
    My heart am thumpin’, jumpin’, bumpin’
    Most excitedly
    Lawdy, lawdy, lawdy, oh
    I want to dance, let’s go
    Just can’t control myself
    I want you all to know
    I’ll soon be

Refrain
Meand’rin’ down the lane with Mandy
Meand’rin’ on a moonlight night
The little stars are blinkin’, ev’rything seems right
When I’m alone with Mandy
Mandy sweet as sugar candy
Someday on her little finger
I’ll place a weddin’ band
There’s not a finer lady livin’ in the land
I want to go on meand’rin’
Holding her hand, her little hand

  1. Weddin’, weddin’, weddin’ bells
    Will bring the colour’d swells
    They’ll come a-hustlin’, bustlin’, tusslin’
    When the preacher tells
    “Brothers, brothers, brothers, hear
    And let me make it clear
    I joins this lovin’ pair
    For ev’ry blessed year to go a-

Sung here by Fred Feild: