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Thread #2749 Message #1336228
Posted By: Jim Dixon
23-Nov-04 - 02:05 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Skinnamarink (Feist & Piantidosi, 1910)
Subject: Lyr Add: "SKIDDY-MER-RINK-A-DOO" MEANS "I LOVE YOU
"SKIDDY-MER-RINK-A-DOO" MEANS "I LOVE YOU."* "SKID-DY-MER-RINK-ADINK-ABOOMP" (Means I Love You)** Words, Felix F. Feist. Music, Al Piantadosi. 1910 "Introduced in Chas. Dillingham's production of the American musical comedy 'The Echo' "
1. Down on a Boola Boola Isle, Where the mermaids chant, Reigns big chief Crocodile Beneath an oyster plant. He loved a sea-nymph selfishly, Queen of the Gay White Wave. Each night in his shell he'd go to sea And in tuneful scales he'd rave:
CHORUS: Skiddy-mer-rink-a-dink-a-boomp, skiddy-mer-rink-a-doo, Means I love you. Skiddy-mer-rink-a-dink-a-boomp, skiddy-mer-rink-a-doo, Means I'll be true Skiddy-mer-rink-a-dink-a-boomp, skiddy-mer-rink-a-doo, All the time he {sang/sings} this rhyme Skiddy-mer-rink-a-dink-a-boomp, skiddy-mer-rink-a-doo, Means I love you.
2. But when the midnight moon was pale, King Fish Kokomo Came floating over with his tale To say he loved her so; But she was true to Crocodile, Said "Koko-Nut, go 'way; I know, in a very little while You will hear my lover say:" CHORUS
*Title as given on cover of sheet music, and as indexed by the Levy Collection. **Title as given at the top of page 1 of the sheet music.