A popular song from 1910
Words by Edward Madden
Music by Harry Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Listen, Mister lover, if you want to capture me
Don’t begin to sing about the dancers of Paree
I’ve got Machiche, right within reach
La Sorrella any fellow knows just how to teach
Grab me ’round the waist
And see how close I’m going to cling
Dance me up the mountain side
And let me hear you sing
Like an aeolian, something Tyrolian
Yodle for me, yodel for me, keep a Yodeling
Chorus:
Let’s do the Yodeling rag
Make it a Schweitzer zig-zag
Sing a little syncopated Tyrolese
Yodle please
Love your little dove a little
Kiss me and cuddle and tease
Give me a Switzerland squeeze
If you kiss me once
You’re going to kiss me twice
I know it’s awfully naughty
But it’s awfully nice
Baby dear, Cuddle near
I get queer when I hear
That Yodeling Rag
- Don’t you do the dances from the dreamy Orient
Don’t you do the dances full of southern sentiment
Bee-dle-um-bo, that’s how they go
Leave them in the jungle in their little bungalow
Hunt me like an Indian when he dances after scalps
Chase me up a mountain till I think I’m in the Alps
Just tie a rope on me, cheer up the hope in me
Yodle for me, yodel for me, keep a yodeling
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: