. . . Climb Down, My Honey Gal, To Me
From the 1902 musical “The Wizard of Oz.”
Words and music by Cobb & Edwards.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Do you ever have an itching
Like as if your side was stitching
Just below your inside pocket
Or a little bit above?
If you do, I’m going to tell you
That disaster’s done befell you
Ad you’re tickled with a trouble
By the learned name of Love
All day long your heart’s a jingle
Like a shower on a shingle
And you feel the way I’m feeling
At the fulness of the moon
When beneath the cypress tree
I wait for Rosalie
And tenderly I trill this true love tune
Chorus
Rosalie (my Rosalie)
My Royal Rosie
Queen to me (my queen to me)
From tip to toesie
While the moon shines thro’ the pine
Come and whisper you’ll be mine
Tell me why (O tell me why)
You’re hesitating
While my arms (O while my arms)
For you are waiting
O won’t you climb down, climb down
Climb down, my honey gal to me
- Romeo and Juliet’ll
Have to stand upon their mettle
For I’m going to the lumber yard
And build a balcony
Just below her second story
While the moon shines in its glory
In accents true to Shakespeare
I will court my Rosalie
As below her there I saunter
I will have her where I want her
For altho’ she’s far above me
Ev’ry night I’ll call her down
Where beneath the cypress tree
With sweetest melody
I sing to her, my queen without a crown
Sung here by Vancha March: