Dancing At The Twelve O'Clock Ball 1919

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 15 Nov 2008
2008

You've heard about the Strutter's Ball
all the high brown babies were there,
And the story book ball so people say,
was a very odd affair,
But I had a dream the other night,
I saw a sight too good to miss,
There were clocks of ev'ry kind
and they did a little dance like this:

First the cuckoo clock
took two steps back,
and Baby Ben began to Ball the Jack,
The Elgin said "My it's a crime
the way that Swiss watch can't keep time."
The Swiss watch said:
"those clocks are fools,
my movement got me all my jew'ls"
And a little clock all dressed in brown,
shook the shimmy 'till it was run down,
Dancing at the twelve o'clock ball.

Then Big Ben said: "Come on let's go,"
and did the Turkey Trot and Tickle Toe,
and just then two alarm clocks passed,
they said: "My but that French clocks fast."
The wrist watch said:
"Oh! Whoops, my dear,"
They thought his action rather queer,
then the Ingersol began to rave,
He just couldn't make his hands behave,
Dancing at the twelve o'clock ball.

They danced around till broad day light
All the clocks there seemed full of pep,
even grandfather's clock was far from slow,
he just had to watch his step,
The oldfashioned clock
then hid her face,
when they all shimmied round the hall,
They could surely tack 'em down
at this syncopated midnight ball.

First the cuckoo clock
took two steps back,
and Baby Ben began to Ball the Jack,
The Elgin said "My it's a crime
the way that Swiss watch can't keep time."
The Swiss watch said:
"those clocks are fools,
my movement got me all my jew'ls"
And a little clock all dressed in brown,
shook the shimmy 'till it was run down,
Dancing at the twelve o'clock ball.

Then Big Ben said: "Come on let's go,"
and did the Turkey Trot and Tickle Toe,
and just then two alarm clocks passed,
they said: "My but that French clocks fast."
The wrist watch said:
"Oh! Whoops, my dear,"
They thought his action rather queer,
then the Ingersol began to rave,
He just couldn't make his hands behave,
Dancing at the twelve o'clock ball.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Dancing At The Twelve O'Clock Ball 1919
by Grace Dodd
© MCMXIX by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 15 November 2008 at 14.40
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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