A popular song from 1904.
Interpolated into the 1902 musical “The Wizard of Oz.”
Words by Will D. Cobb.
Music by Gus Edwards.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Hear my tale of woe
I have lost my beau
He was so rich and so rare
I used to handle with care
I didn’t want him broke
And that’s no stage joke
One day I dropped him too hard
Now he don’t play in my yard
No more little bright eyes me
Chorus
I’ve lost my honey, my ready honey
I must find another like him
Wonder where I’m going to strike him
You’re just his size sir
You’ve got his eyes sir
If I can’t have my Sammy
Then Johnny I’ll take you
- Hear, oh, hear my loss
My poor Charlie Ross
He was so handsome and fair
He used to sit over there
At the old stage door
When the play was o’er
Happy I’d feel when I’d wheel
Home in his automobile
Guess I’ll have to walk tonight
Sung here by Vancha March: