Lyr Req: In Sweet Onion Time

Subject: Lyr Add: IN SWEET ONION TIME (I'LL BREATHE MY...
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 09:09 AM

Copied from http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/songs/duncanonion.html
(That page also has images of the sheet-music covers from 1924 and 1942.)

IN SWEET ONION TIME (I'LL BREATHE MY LOVE TO YOU)
By The Duncan Sisters--Sam Coslow © 1924

Chilly-umpah-umpah, chilly-umpumpah,
I go off my nut each time I hear a guitar.
It was in Bermuda that I heard one played.
Some Boloney sang to me this serenade:

CHORUS: When it's sweet onion time in Bermuda,
I'll breathe my love to you.
In that fragrance divine,
With your lips close to mine,
Your eyes with teardrops will shine.
We will frolic among the garlic,
Till we hear those sweet wedding bells chime.
If you get lost in the dark, I will find you,
In Bermuda in sweet onion time.

Chilly-umpah-umpah, chilly-umpumpah,
Makes me feel peculiar. Oh, strum your guitar.
Little Carmencita, come and sit here, do.
Let me smell just once again the smile of you.

CHORUS 2: When it's sweet onion time in Bermuda,
I'll breathe my love to you.
Other lovers may dine
All their sweethearts with wine;
We'll have a real onion stew.
I remember when I first met you,
With a bunch of sweet scallions divine,
Your love was strong and it knocked me unconscious,
In Bermuda in sweet onion time.

[From The Duncan Sisters' musical comedy "Topsy and Eva."]

Subject: When It's Sweet Onion Time in Bermuda
From:
Date: 05 Apr 00 - 12:34 AM

I am looking for the words and music to this old song from the Vaudeville days. Anyone can help?