A popular song from 1903.
Interpolated into the 1902 musical “The Wizard of Oz.”
Words and music by Cobb & Edwards.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- I know of sweethearts a-plenty
I could have sixteen or twenty
Nice little girlies
With nice little curlies
With names “A” to “Z”
Minnies and Maudies and Mollies
Patsies and Pearlies and Pollies
I’d be their foreman
If I was a Mormon
But not for me
Chorus
I love only one girl
In this wide, wide world
She gets all my attention
For she’s my girl
She knows that I know
And I know that she knows
I love only one girl
In this wide, wide world
- After our evening is over
After an evening in clover
I kiss her sweetly
Contented completely
I leave her at her door
What if I chance to meet Jessie
Run across Bessie or Tessie?
Some call it shocking
But what’s the use knocking
It don’t count, for
Sung here by Vancha March: