Bees Knees 1922

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 24 Sep 2012
2012

Oh dear, oh dear,
what is that I hear?
Oh dear, oh dear,
ringing in my ear,
it's just a new tune
and I know
you're goin' to love it,
and want more of it;
Oh dear, oh dear,
with its rhythm queer
oh dear, oh dear,
mighty soon I fear,
I'll be completely
in the air
because I hear it ev'rywhere.

It's the Bees Knees,
and just take it from me,
there's one thing I want to say
you're gonna hear it night and day,
in almost ev'ry way
it's always Bees Knees
when the violin man
just makes up his mind to please
and when he starts to play
that's when you'll say
it's sure the old Bees Knees.

Oh it's the Bees Knees,
and just take it from me,
there's one thing I want to say
you're gonna hear it night and day,
in almost ev'ry way
it's always Bees Knees
when the violin man
just makes up his mind to please
and when he starts to play
that's when you'll say
it's sure the old Bees Knees.

You sigh, you sigh,
and you wonder why,
you try, you try,
but you can't deny,
that it's the tune
makes you that way,
tho' you don't know it,
you surely show it,
and when, and when,
it is ended then,
you cry, you cry,
play it once again,
the more you hear that melody
you surely will agree with me.

It's the Bees Knees,
and just take it from me,
there's one thing I want to say
you're gonna hear it night and day,
in almost ev'ry way
it's always Bees Knees
when the violin man
just makes up his mind to please
and when he starts to play
that's when you'll say
it's sure the old Bees Knees.

Oh it's the Bees Knees,
and just take it from me,
there's one thing I want to say
you're gonna hear it night and day,
in almost ev'ry way
it's always Bees Knees
when the violin man
just makes up his mind to please
and when he starts to play
that's when you'll say
it's sure the old Bees Knees.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Bees Knees 1922
Music by Ted Lewis & Ray Lopez
Lyrics by Leo Wood
© MCMXXII by Leo Feist Inc. New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 23 September 2012 at 22.05
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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