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Courtesy John Sullivan
RECORDING:
In Sweet Onion Time
(I'll Breathe My Love to You)

By The Duncan Sisters--Sam Coslow
The Duncan Sisters | Comediennes with Piano
Victor Records
(Camden, N.J.: Victor Talking Machine Co, n.d.)

DIGITIZED & REFURBISHED
(from the original 78rpm record)

BY: Adam Soroka
Digital Media Center, Clemons Library


1924 Cover


1942 Cover
Images courtesy John Sullivan


Sweet Onion Time

By the Duncan Sisters and Sam Coslow


Chilly umpah umpah, Chilly umpumpah,
I go off my nut each time I hear a guitar,
It was in Bermuda that I heard one played;
Some Boloney sang to me this serenade:

[CHORUS]
When it's SWEET ONION TIME in Bermuda,
I'll breathe my love to you,
In that fragrance divine,
With your lips close to mine,
Your eyes with tear drops will shine;
We will frolic among the garlic,
Till we hear those sweet wedding bells chime.
If you get lost in the dark I will find you,
In Bermuda in SWEET ONION TIME.

Chilly umpah umpah, Chilly umpumpah,
Makes me feel peculiar, oh, strum your guitar,
Little Carmenceta come and sit here do;
Let me smell just once again, the smile of you:

[CHORUS]
When it's SWEET ONION TIME in Bermuda,
I'll breathe my love to you,
Other lovers may dine
All their sweethearts with wine,
We'll have a real onion stew;
I remember when I first met you,
With a bunch of sweet scalions divine,
Your love was strong and it knock'd me unconcious,
In Bermuda in SWEET ONION TIME.


© 1924; assigned 1942 to
Norman Edwards Music Publisher
8452 Harold Way, Hollywood


From The Duncan Sisters
Musical Comedy Topsy and Eva
A George Shafer Production

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