(The Fool Song)
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
- I wants to hike to Timbuctoo
To soak the saucy native
Nicodemus
A missionary friends of mines they eat up quite elative
Sacramento
I don’ts know were he biled or fried
Or sauted likes a noodle
I only know his familee
Has borrowed all my boodle
Too-ti, froo-ti
No matter, never mind
Such kindness is unkind
Refrain
Folly, Folly, isn’t folly jolly?
Good for sunburn, freckles, warts
Good for grouches, too
Cholly! Molly! Cut out melancholy
Take a whirl at folly
- The course of true love is, of course
A table d’hote in courses
Turn the gas low
To bet a bit of bood
You’d better back the biggest horses
Soak your soaklets
The girl who has the vote-let
Votes the vut that vix us trouble
Her hatpin gives a stablet
In your slabs that makes you double
You’re the victim
A maid is made to fade
The lollipop brigade - The baker boke a loaf of bread
To feed the fedless loafer
What’s the answer?
The shofer showfed a shif
That ought to shuffed the auto’s shofer
There’s a reason
When fighters fit the type machines
They box their blocks with reason
And then they vode a vid of vud
In vaudeville a season
Curb your anguish
A beer can bore a bum
It’s foam fims fumes of fum
Sung here by Vancha March: