A popular song from 1910
Words and music by Al Gard
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- Every laddie has a lassie
Every lassie has a beau
I had searched this wide world over
And had always found it so
Yet it appeared they’d all been mated
Before I came in the play
And I felt so blue until I looked thro’
A telescope one day
(Since then)
Chorus
I’m in love with the bell of the planet of Mars
I can see her afar hiding there ‘mid the stars
Every night thro’ my glass
I can watch that sweet lass
Making eyes at the man in the moon
And this coy little flirt oft my feelings hath hurt
And I’m building an airship car
Then thro’ oceans of sky to her home I will fly
And I’ll marry the Maid of Mars
- Can’t you imagine us housekeeping
In our airy castle gay
We will have stardust for breakfast food
And for cream the milky way
Have a comet for a chafing dish
From the dipper nectar quaff
And we’ll read the news whene’er we choose b
By wireless telegraph
(You see)
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: