Business Is Business Rosie Cohen 1911 Maybel Drew

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 12 Aug 2005

Able Bloom loved Miss Rosie Cohen,
Able as a bus'ness man was in a class alone,
Rosie's family were satisfied,
Able owned a clothing store
a bus'ness man;
ev'ry month Rosie's father, Mose,
walked in Able's clothing store
and took a suit of clothes,
one day Able drew Rosie near,
and whispered these words in her ear:

Bus'ness is business Miss Rosie Cohen,
I've got to pay for ev'rything I own,
seven suits of clothes
your father took out of my store,
all he says is,
charge it to my future soninlaw.
Tell your expensive father C.O.D.
Don't mean, come on down to my store, for,
ev'ry little dollar carries int'rest all its own,
Bus'ness is bus'ness Rosie Cohen.

Bus'ness is business Miss Rosie Cohen,
I've got to pay for ev'rything I own,
seven suits of clothes
your father took out of my store,
all he says is,
charge it to my future soninlaw.
Tell your expensive father C.O.D.
Don't mean, come on down to my store, for,
ev'ry little dollar carries int'rest all its own,
Bus'ness is bus'ness Rosie Cohen.

Able said: "Listen Rosie, dear,
ev'ry month a suit,
means just a dozen suits a year,
seven years, and then your father, Mose,
he will have enough to start
a clothing store;
there again, father is no fool,
he can tell a cotton suit
from one that's made of wool.
since I fell in love with you Rose,
your father is so hard on clothes."

Bus'ness is business Miss Rosie Cohen,
I've got to pay for ev'rything I own,
seven suits of clothes
your father took out of my store,
all he says is,
charge it to my future soninlaw.
Tell your expensive father C.O.D.
Don't mean, come on down to my store, for,
ev'ry little dollar carries int'rest all its own,
Bus'ness is bus'ness Rosie Cohen.

Bus'ness is business Miss Rosie Cohen,
I've got to pay for ev'rything I own,
seven suits of clothes
your father took out of my store,
all he says is,
charge it to my future soninlaw.
Tell your expensive father C.O.D.
Don't mean, come on down to my store, for,
ev'ry little dollar carries int'rest all its own,
Bus'ness is bus'ness Rosie Cohen.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Business Is Business Rosie Cohen 1911
Words and Music By Irving Berlin
Performer: Maybel Drew
© 1911 by Ted Snyder Co., 112 West 38th St., New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 12 August 2005 at 13.41
in association with Doug Grierson
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