From the 1906 musical “The LIttle Joker”.
Words by Arthur Gillespie and James O’Dea.
Music by Anne Caldwell.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- A summer’s night, it’s my delight
To stroll the sandy shore
Where lovers roam, beside the foam
And ocean billows roar
With just the moon, to watch you spoon
With some sweet girl you’re dreaming
But son you’re caught, for you forgot
The man with the searchlight beaming
Chorus
I don’t like a searchlight
When I want to spoon
I don’t care for any light
But good old Mister Moon
Moonlight’s so effective
Searchlight’s a detective
Take away the Searchlight
Turn on the Moon
I want to Spoon
- With some sweet Miss, who loves to kiss
A corner dark you seek
It’s up to you, to print a few
Sweet kisses on her cheek
But you don’t care, you know it’s there
There’s lots of time for wooing
Just then the search-light comes along
And so there is nothing doing - The ocean side, where rolls the tide
Is just the proper place
To work a charm, and let your arm
Serenely “go to waist”
But when you’d woo, the girlie who
Sets all your senses dizzy
It means that you, had best “skidoo”
When the searchlight man gets busy
Sung here by Vancha March: