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Sweet Amelia Lyrics
Maidens all within a ring
Laws with a man to marry it
Sweet Amelia let us sing
Lord I wish her name was Harriet
Lovely far beyond comparison
We have never seen her like
Loved and lost by Charlie Harrison
Ebenezer Jones and Dick Van Dyke
Sweet Amelia's hair is golden
Sweetly floating, sweetly folding
Saw it through the window as I passed
Sweetly hung at quarter mast
Drips she lightly o'er the lea
Sounding like a herd of elephants
Birds and flowers turn to see
Mud is what I call irrelevance
Lovely far beyond comparison
In a most ethereal way
Loved and lost by Charlie Harrison
Doubtless she began with Henry Clay
Sweet Amelia's eyes are shining
Ever laughing, never pining
You should see her laughing, fit to die
With a cinder in her eye
Wind we now a daisy chain
Make it out of steel and chromium
Our Amelia's here again
Listening to this encomium
Lovely far beyond comparison
Fairer we shall never see
Loved and lost by Charlie Harrison
Charlie was the one she stole from me
Sweet Amelia's heart is glowing
Suitors coming, suitor's going
If she'd make her mind up fair and square
We could solve the traffic problem there
Laws with a man to marry it
Sweet Amelia let us sing
Lord I wish her name was Harriet
We have never seen her like
Loved and lost by Charlie Harrison
Ebenezer Jones and Dick Van Dyke
Sweetly floating, sweetly folding
Saw it through the window as I passed
Sweetly hung at quarter mast
Sounding like a herd of elephants
Birds and flowers turn to see
Mud is what I call irrelevance
In a most ethereal way
Loved and lost by Charlie Harrison
Doubtless she began with Henry Clay
Ever laughing, never pining
You should see her laughing, fit to die
With a cinder in her eye
Make it out of steel and chromium
Our Amelia's here again
Listening to this encomium
Fairer we shall never see
Loved and lost by Charlie Harrison
Charlie was the one she stole from me
Suitors coming, suitor's going
If she'd make her mind up fair and square
We could solve the traffic problem there
Song Info
Submitted by
schnitzi On Oct 26, 2017
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Well, this one is a serious head-scratcher, but two observations:
Given the year this was recorded (mid-50's?), this is surely one of the earliest cultural references to Dick Van Dyke from an external source.
It eventually occurred to me that this song was likely intended to be a duet, between a man and a woman. Notice the lines she sings in a comically low register, and how they trade off with lines in her normal singing voice. And while I still have no clue as to what the song means, the "man" parts also seem to be much more cynical, lyrically.