[from] Three Twins
Cha[rle]s. Dickson's
Musical Adaptation
of Mrs. R. Pacheco's Comedy "Incog"
Management
Jos. M. Gaites

"Cudle Up a Little Closer, Lovely Mine" (1908)
Words by O. A. Hauerbach [Otto Harbach] [1873-1963]
Music by Karl L. Hoschna [1877-1911]

New York/Chicago/London/Paris: M. Whitmark & Sons
[Source: facsimile pages 10-13 from
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game and Other Favorite Song Hits
1906-1908" Edited by Lester S. Levy
(New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1984)]

1. On the Summer shore,
Where the breakers roar,
Lovers sat on the glistning sand.
And they talked of love,
While the moon above,
And the stars seemed to understand.
Then she grew more cold,
And he grew more bold,
Till she tho’t that they had better go.
But altho’ he heard,
He not even stirred,
Only murmured in tones soft and low.

CHORUS [sung twice after each VERSE]
Cuddle up a little closer, Lovey mine.
Cuddle up and be my little clinging vine.
Like to feel your cheek so rosy,
Like to make you comfy, cosy,
Cause I love from head to toesie Lovey mine.

2. Then she deigned to rest,
On his manly chest,
Her dear head with its flowing curls.
And she said, “I’d stay,
On this lap for aye,
How I envy the Copland girls.
For Miss Esquimaus,
’Mid the ice and snow,
Has no steamheat when he comes to call.
Not a single glim,
So it’s up to him,
To whisper in summer or fall.”