If you like-a me,
Like I like-a you,
And we like each both the same.
La laa la-laa,
La laa la-laa,
I’d like to change
Your nay-hay-hame.
Exactly like that except for line 4 and 5 and maybe other verses. 
Ius it from Meet me in St. Louis? If yes, who sings it?
Jst this minute occurred to me that it might be a duet, and
the female was a young Judy Garland in pigtails.
Can this be correctamente?
I like-a say,
This very day,
Yes, it’s “Under the Banyan Tree,” from Meet Me in St. Louis. Judy Garland is the older girl, singing with Margaret O’Brian.
Yikes. Make that “Under the Bamboo Tree.”
if you like-a me
like i like-a you
and we like-a both the same
i like-a say this very day
i like-a change your name
'cause i love-a you
and love-a you true
and if you-a love-a me
one live as two
two live as one
under the bamboo tree
Wonderful. Thank you Sigmagirl.
This morning, my wife and I were in the kitchen
and I happened to sing the verse as in the OP.
She’s just 4 years younger than I am, and the familiar pattern
repeated yet again.
She’d never heard this song before.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Shit, I thought it was something Steve Martin made up.
Music & Lyrics by Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane, 1944.
Actually, that is the chorus, and the verse is a little less politically correct:
“Down in the jungles lived a maid
of royal blood though dusky shade
a marked impression once she made
upon a Zulu from Matabooloo”
But that isn’t the part people remember.
I just ordered the DVD from Netflix and moved it to the top of my queue.
Thanks very much, all of you.
Judy Garland and Margaret O’Brien…