A popular song from 1902.
Interpolated into the 1902 musical “The Wizard of Oz.”
Words by James O’Dea.
Music by Edward Hutchison.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Did you ever meet the fellow fine and dandy
Who can readily dispel your ills and woes?
Did you ever meet the boy who’s all the candy
Where’er he goes?
That’s the very sort of fellow I’m in love with
He is all the daffodils of early spring
And to me the finest bliss is
Just to revel in his kisses
When to him I sing
Chorus
Sammy, oh, oh, oh, Sammy
For you I’m pining when we’re apart
Sammy, when you come wooing
There’s something doing around my heart
Sammy, oh, oh, oh, Sammy
Can’t live without you, my dreams of joy
Tell me, oh, oh, oh, tell me
You’re only mine, my Sammy boy
- In the evening, when the summer moon is beaming
On the river where the waters rush and swirl
With my Sammy boy a-spooning and a-dreaming
You’ll find this girl
When within his manly arms I am reclining
Like a bird in summer time upon the wing
I imagine I’m a-flying
Up to Paradise a-hieing
When to him I sing
Sung here by Vancha March: