Dorando 1909

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 10 Dec 2006
2006

I feel a much a bad like any thing,
all the night I nunga canna sleep,
it's a my pizon Pasquale,
he say we take da car
and see Dorando race a "Longaship"
Just like da sport
I sell da barber shop,
and make da bet Dorando he's a win.
Then to Madeesa Square,
Pasquale and me go there,
and just a like a dat,
da race begin.

Dorando Dorando
He run a, run a, run a, run like anything.
One a, two a hundred times around da ring.

I cry, "please a nunga stop!"
Just then, Dorando he's a drop!
Good bye poor old barber shop,
It's no fun to losa da mon,
when de sunofagun no run,
Dorando,
he's good a for not!

Dorando, he's a come around next day,
say: "Gentleman, I wanna tell a you,
it's a one a bigga shame,
I forgot da man's a name
who make me eat da Irish beef a stew;
I ask a him to give me da spagett,
I know it make me run a quick a quick,
but I eat da beef a stew
and now I tell a you,
just like da pipps it make me very sick."

Dorando Dorando
He run a, run a, run a, run like anything.
One a, two a hundred times around da ring.

I cry, "please a nunga stop!"
Just then, Dorando he's a drop!
Good bye poor old barber shop,
It's no fun to losa da mon,
when de sunofagun no run,
Dorando,
he's good a for not!

Soft karaoke
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Dorando 1909
Words & Music by Irving Berlin
© 1909 by Ted Snyder & Co.Inc.  N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 10 December 2006 at 8.44pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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