[title page] "Skid-dy-mer-rink-adink-aboomp" (1910)
(Means I Love You)
[cover page] "Skiddy-Mer-Rink-A-Doo" Means "I Love You"
Words by Felix F. Feist
Music by Al Piantadosi
Introduced in
Charles Dillingham's
Production of
The American Musical Comedy
"The Echo"
[includes portrait of Richard Carle on cover]

[Source: 189/151@Levy;
New York: Leo Feist, Plate No. 2444-4]

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 2 times
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-dink-a-boomp,
Skid-dy-mer-ink-a-doo, means I love you you,
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-dink-a-boomp,
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-doo, means I'll be true.
Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-doo-a-boomp,
Skid-fy-mer-rink-a-doo,
All the time he {sang this rhyme;|sings this rhyme}
"Skid-dy-mer-rink-a-doo-a-boomp,
Skid-fy-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 2 times)