A popular song from 1910.
Words by Edgar Leslie.
Music by Kerry Mills.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Oh! my honey, hear that strange melody
Why it sounds a lot like ragtime to me
Get your feet a little busy
Come to sister Lizzie
Dance me ’til I’m good and dizzy
If you never knew what love was before
I’ll explain it to you out on the floor
Come along and do a new step
Dif’rent from the two-step
Do the loving ragtime glide
Chorus
Oh! baby, love me, hug me, squeeze me tight
Turn me left then turn me right
Don’t say “Home Sweet Home” tonight
When all the little stars are gone
I’ll love you in the early morn
You may act like “Peck’s Bad Boy”
I’ll still call you “Mother’s Joy”
It’s most captivating, that fascinating, loving, ragtime glide
- Oh! my honey, feel my hands getting cold
That’s your cue Mister to get a little bold
Won’t you speak about my beauty
Say that I’m your cutey
Ready honey, do your duty
See the kind Professor’s waiting for me
With his syncopated rag melody
Give me just another twist, oh!
And like Monte Cristo
I will yell, “The world is mine”
Sung here by Vancha March: