(To know that I am dead in love with you)
A 1916 popular song.
Words by Richard Howard.
Music by Eugene Platzmann.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Now I’ve got a pal, who’s got a little gal
Who’s got a funny little plan
If she wants to know if she really loves her beau
She’ll go and see a Gypsy man
For fifty cents inside his tent
The Gypsy fellow, he’ll take and tell her
Incidentally, consequentally
I’m saving dough, Oh!
Chorus:
I don’t have to go see a Gypsy to know
That I am dead in love with you
I don’t have to go hand him over my dough
To know that I’ll be fond and true
Now I might have to go a dozen times or so
To know if I can ever pay the “dough” I own
But I don’t have to go see the Gypsy to know
That I am dead in love with you
2. An old maid I know too, also used to go
To see the little Gypsy man
While she lay asleep, there a burglar he did creep
To steal her “dough”, that was his plan
Unlucky “Joe” he stubbed his toe
Then she awakened and started, shaken
Then she understood, cried, “The Lord is good”
Sent me a beau, Oh!
Chorus:
I don’t have to go to a Gypsy to know
That I am dead in love with you
I don’t have to go and my palm to him show
To know I’ve met my “Waterloo”
Now I might have to go a dozen times or so
To find out if my shape would suit a Broadway show
But I don’t have to go see a Gypsy to know
That I am dead in love with you