Lyr Req: I'm Just Wild about Harry (Sissle, Blake)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Just Wild about Harry (Sissle, Blake)
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 11 Aug 21 - 08:52 AM

Re: Piers Plowman's post (2 above).
I agree, lamps = eyes. Sounds right to me.
Good call!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Just Wild about Harry (Sissle, Blake)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 03:29 PM

Oddly enough I was just reading a news article about the original show in 1921 today.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Just Wild about Harry (Sissle, Blake)
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 12:34 PM

My guess is that "lamps" are eyes.

Here's a lead sheet, if anyone's interested.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Just Wild about Harry (Sissle, Blake)
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jul 21 - 11:13 PM

Well, these lyrics are, on this date,
all over the Internet and you get lots of hits
when you use the search engine.

Nobody explains about the cruel lamps, however,
and what you get a lot of is:

"O cruel lamps of London . . . " which is another animal.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Just Wild about Harry (Sissle, Blake)
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jul 21 - 09:30 PM

Does anyone know what "with cruel lamps" means?

Subject: RE: i'm just wild about harry
From: Ireland O'Reilly
Date: 30 Jul 98 - 03:26 PM

Wasn't this song on the film "My Girl"? Well, at least an excerpt of it, anyway...

Subject: RE: i'm just wild about harry
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 30 Jul 98 - 02:57 PM

Chuck...

Let that be a lesson to you.

....Tiger

Subject: RE: i'm just wild about harry
From:
Date: 29 Jul 98 - 11:16 PM

Mick:

I looked a lot of places before trying Mudcat.

Thanks, Chuck

Subject: Lyr Add: I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY (Sissle, Blake)
From: Brack&
Date: 29 Jul 98 - 04:04 AM

I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY
(Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)

There's just one fellow for me in this world
Harry's his name, that's what I claim
Why for every fellow there must be a girl
I've found my mate, by kindness of fate

Refrain
I'm just wild about Harry
And Harry's wild about me
The heavenly blisses of his kisses
Fill me with ecstasy
He's sweet just like chocolate candy
And just like honey from the bee
Oh I'm just wild about Harry
And he's just wild about, cannot do without
He's just wild about me

There are some fellows that like all the girls
I mean the vamps, with cruel lamps
But my Harry says I'm the girl of all girls
I'm his ideal, how happy I feel

Repeat refrain

Regards Mick Bracken

Subject: i'm just wild about harry
From: cgs
Date: 28 Jul 98 - 10:52 PM

Does anyone know the lyrics to "I'm Just Wild about Harry". It was written in to 20's and became a kind of theme song for Harry Truman in his election campaign.