DESCRIPTION: Charted at #1 in May 1908. Also a #1 hit for Lucy Isabelle Marsh in 1908. From the operetta, Lysistrata. Original title: Das Glühwürmchen. Written by Paul Lincke and Heinz Bolten-Backers. English lyrics by Lilla Cayley Robinson. The lyrics were later expanded by Johnny Mercer and a new version of the song became a 1952 hit for the Mills Brothers.