From the 1940 musical “Louisiana Purchase”.
Words and music by Irving Berlin.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
I’m not a McCormack, I haven’t a voice
I loosen my vocals but never by choice
Still I’ve a song to sing
And I long to sing it for you
It isn’t a ballad with plenty of heart
It hasn’t the rhythm that’s clever and smart
Just a tune with words that rhyme
That I wrote to say that I’m
Chorus
Wild about you
The child about you makes me
Wild about you
If I were a native of Borneo
I couldn’t be wilder about you
Mad about you, the bad about you
Makes me mad about you
If I were the hatter in Wonderland
I couldn’t be madder about you
That’s my story
And I’ll stick to it, dear
In case you didn’t listen
In case you didn’t hear
Wild about you, the child about you
Makes me wild about you
If I were a tiger in Africa
I couldn’t be wilder about you
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: