(Music Box Song)
From the 1920 musical “What’s in a Name”.
Words by John Murray Anderson and Jack Yellen.
Music by Milton Ager.
Song suggested by Laurence Rubenstein.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In a quaint old fashioned store
Relic of the days of yore
Curios and oldtime clocks
Hide a china music box
In a dainty panniered dress
There’s a Dresden shepherdess
With a shepherd by the side
Of this little china bride
When the music starts to play
I can almost hear him say
Chorus
“In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to love
Poets sing of love’s romance the skies are blue above
Moonbeams bring love dreams and spring seems to call
Hearts that are tender quickly surrender all
When you hear the tinkle, tinkle of the wedding chime
Modest eyes with lovelight twinkle, all the world’s in rhyme
Tho’ we’re only made of china Youth must have its fling
And to love our fancy turns in spring”
- Underneath the hawthorn bow’r
There they spend each blissful hour
Life for them is one glad tune
One long happy honeymoon
Sometime when they wind the clocks
They will wind the music box
And if you should chance to peep
When the world is fast asleep
As the witching hour draws near
This is what you’ll surely hear
Sung here by Fred Feild: