From “ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1911,” 1911.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Introduced by Fanny Brice.
Cover Art by John Frew.
Copyright ©30 Sep 1911.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
VERSE 1
Did you ever fall in love with a bonehead,
A stone headed man,
A man who doesn’t know that the lights a-burning low
Mean he should be most lovable?
That’s the very kind of man that I’m in love with,
A dove with no heart.
When he should hug, snug like a bug within a rug,
That’s the time he wants to part.
CHORUS
Doggone that chilly man of mine,
Overboard I’d shove him,
Just because he made me love him.
Doggone that chilly man of mine,
He’s as cold a lover
As the pole that Cook discovered.
Doggone the icy man of min,
With a heart just like a fan,
For when I’m all fussed up for an ever-lovin’ spoon,
He’s out in the garden making faces at the moon,
And I sigh, and I cry,
Doggone that chilly man.
VERSE 2
When your heart is jumping to your collar,
You holler for love,
And that’s the time a man should be doing all he can
To love his gal most beautiful.
When I ask him for a kiss on his call days,
He’s always refuse.
What would you think of any man who talks of love
While he reads the daily news?
REPEAT CHORUS