From the 1913 musical “The Tik-Tok Man of Oz”.
Words by L. Frank Baum.
Music by Louis F. Gottschalk.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Wherever you go
You will find, as you know
Ev’rybody is crazy to waltz
You clinch and get busy
And whirl till you’re dizzy
There’s nothing the soul so exalts
With a girl in your arms
Whom no pressure alarms
You will seem in a dream of delight
So you hunch and you glide
And you trip and you slide
In the way that they say is polite
Ow-wow! the waltz is a rapture
‘Twill capture the great and the small
Ow-wow! Say, ain’t it amazing
How crazing it is to us all?
Ow-wow! Now as we go prancing
And dancing all over the hall
We pant and we stagger
But try to look swagger
And waltz without halts till we fall
Oh, my! How does it seem, girl
To whirl till you’re daffy with glee?
My eye! Ain’t it a dream girl
To snuggle up closer to me
Fie-Fie! There’s never a cooktail of joy
Like this waltz, you’ll agree
The world will admire us
It’s plaudits inspire us
To act like two fools as we be
Sung here by Vancha March: