From the musical “The Tik-Tok Man of Oz”, 1913.
Words by L. Frank Baum.
Music by Louis F. Gottschalk.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When you feel a funny feeling
That you never felt before
When a yearn is o’er you stealing
For the maiden you adore
There’s a pow’r that sets your glowing heart a flutter
Puts the lovelight in your eyes
There’s a necromancy causes you to utter
Tender rhapsodies and plaintive sighs
So beware! Have a care!
Chorus
‘Tis the wonderful Magnet of Love
It’s a charm from the Fairies above
So you can’t get away from it’s magical sway
It holds you a captive, object as you may
It is folly it’s pow’r to resist
When it gives all your heart strings a twist
For you’ll “bill” and you’ll “coo”
Like a daft turtle dove
‘Neath the charm of the Magnet of Love
- When a boy and girl go crazy
Singing to a cold, hard moon
When their intellects are hazy
Namby pamby lovelays croon
When a homely girl is loved by an Apollo
Who for her grim smiles will sigh
When a rosy peach some ugly chap will follow
And you can’t explain the reason why
Here’s the fact, quite exact
Sung here by Vancha March: