A popular song from 1916.
Words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young.
Music by Geo. W. Meyer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Every night I hear my neighbors sighin’
“If you like me like i like you
Yaddie kaddie kiddie kaddie koo”
That’s just how they make love in Hawaiian
Every time she says “I’m feeling blue”
He says “Yaddie kaddie kiddie kaddie koo”
Many, many nights I’ve spent
Wondering what the darn thing meant,
Yaddie kaddie kiddie kaddie koo
Still I don’t know what it means, do you?
Chorus:
Please tell me, why do they sing that silly thing?
Yaddie kaddie koo, love your daddy do
Kiddie koo, he loves you
That melody from Waikiki
Hasn’t any sense until they commence
“Yaddie kaddie kiddie kaddie koo”
2. When the milkman called around this morning
I asked him to leave a pint or two
He said, “Yaddie kaddie kiddie kaddie koo”
When the landlord calls I’m always yawning
He don’t ever say “the rent is due”
All he says is “Yaddie kaddie koo”
Butcher, barber, janitor
When they knock upon my door
I say “not today, I’m feeling blue”
They say “Yaddie kaddie kiddie koo”