A mesmerizing rag from 1911.
Words Lew Brown.
Music by Albert Von Tilzer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When you feel queer and you hear
Someone whisper in your ear, “Come over here”
Don’t make a sound for you’ll know
You’ve found a man to fear
Your eyes grow dim and your head starts to swim
And then you stare
From your head to toes
That strange feeling flows
Then your eyes will close
And you start to doze
With his hands he just commands
You sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep
Refrain
Oh! that hypnotizing man
Oh! that hypnotizing man
When he makes those motions at you
Ev’rything he bids you must do
Look out he’ll get you if he can
Keep awake, keep awake, keep awake
Oh! those wonderful eyes
How they seem to tantalize
When that feeling o’er you does creep
Your eyes are open but you’re fast asleep
That stare, is over there
Have a care, he’s ev’rywhere
That hypnotizing man
- Hark I can hear very clear
That same voice ring in my ear
“Come over here”
Take him away, can’t you hear what I say?
I’m full of fear
I feel so strange and I know by this change
That he is near
Seems I’ve got to stay and I must obey
For I hear him say, “You are mine today”
While his eyes grow twice their size
You sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep
Sung here by Vancha March: