. . . means I love you, 1910.
Introduced in The American Musical Comedy “The Echo”.
words by Felix F. Feist
music by Al Piantadosi
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:
Lyrics
- Down on a Boola Boola Isle
Where the Mermaids chant
Reigns Big Chief Crocodile
Beneath an Oyster Plant
He loved a Sea-nymph selfishly
Queen of the Gay White Wave
Each night, in his shell he’d go to sea
And in tuneful scales he’d rave
Chorus
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-dink-a-boomp
Skid-dy-mer-ink-a-doo, means I love you
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-dink-a-boomp
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-doo, means I’ll be true
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-dink-a-boomp
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-doo
All the time he sang this rhyme
“Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-doo-a-boomp
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-doo, means I love you”
- But when the Midnight Moon was pale
King Fish Kokomo
Came floating over with his tale
To say, he loved her so
But she was true to Crocodile
Said “Koko-Nut go ‘way
I know, in a very little while
You will hear my lover say”
Sung here by Fred Feild: