[Intro]
When you're in love and you are wonderin'
If he really is the one
There's an ancient sign sure to tell you
If your search is over and done
Just catch a bee and if he don't sting you
You're in a spell that's just begun
It's a guarantee 'til the end of time
Your true love you have won, have won

[Verse 1]
When a bee lies sleepin' in the palm of your hand
You're bewitched, and deep in love's long-looked-after land
Where you'll see a sun-up sky with a mornin' new
And where the days go laughin' by, as love comes a-callin' on you

[Verse 2]
Sleep on bee, don't waken, I can't believe what just passed
She's mine for the takin' I'm so happy at last
Maybe I dreams, but she seems sweet golden as a crown
A sleepin' bee done told me, that I’ll walk with my feet off the ground
When my one true love, I has found