Fascinatin' Rhythm 1929

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 08 Apr 2004

Got a little rhythm,
a rhythm, a rhythm
that pitapats through my brain.
So darned persistent,
the day isn't distant
when it'll drive me insane.
Comes in the morning
without any warning
and hangs around all day.
I'll have to sneak up to it,
someday, and speak up to it;
I hope it listens when I say:

"Fascinating Rhythm,
you've got me on the go!
Fascinating Rhythm,
I'm all a quiver.
What a mess you're making!
The neighbours want to know
why I'm always shaking
just like a flivver.
Each morning I get up with the sun,
(Start a hopping never stopping)
To find it at night,
no work has been done.
I know that once it didn't matter.
But now you're doing wrong;
when you start to patter,
I'm so unhappy.
Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
somewhere far away off,
and make it snappy!
Oh, how I long to be the man
I used to be!
Fascinating Rhythm,
Oh, won't you stop picking on me!

Fascinating Rhythm,
you've got me on the go!
Fascinating Rhythm,
I'm all a quiver.
What a mess you're making!
The neighbours want to know
why I'm always shaking
just like a flivver.
Each morning I get up with the sun,
(Start a hopping never stopping)
To find it at night,
no work has been done.
I know that once it didn't matter.
But now you're doing wrong;
when you start to patter,
I'm so unhappy.
Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
somewhere far away off,
and make it snappy!
Oh, how I long to be the man
I used to be!
Fascinating Rhythm,
Oh, won't you stop picking on me!"

At the breakfast table
it sounds like a Babel
that sets itself to a rhyme.
While at my dinner
I'm sure getting thinner
through masticating rag time.
When tea cups clatter
and girls start to chatter,
the rhythm's there all right.
The thing will never leave me.
Why, when in bed believe me
as soon as I blow out the light:

"Fascinating Rhythm,
you've got me on the go!
Fascinating Rhythm,
I'm all a quiver.
What a mess you're making!
The neighbours want to know
why I'm always shaking
just like a flivver.
Each morning I get up with the sun,
(Start a hopping never stopping)
To find it at night,
no work has been done.
I know that once it didn't matter.
But now you're doing wrong;
when you start to patter,
I'm so unhappy.
Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
somewhere far away off,
and make it snappy!
Oh, how I long to be the man
I used to be!
Fascinating Rhythm,
Oh, won't you stop picking on me!

Fascinating Rhythm,
you've got me on the go!
Fascinating Rhythm,
I'm all a quiver.
What a mess you're making!
The neighbours want to know
why I'm always shaking
just like a flivver.
Each morning I get up with the sun,
(Start a hopping never stopping)
To find it at night,
no work has been done.
I know that once it didn't matter.
But now you're doing wrong;
when you start to patter,
I'm so unhappy.
Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
somewhere far away off,
and make it snappy!
Oh, how I long to be the man
I used to be!
Fascinating Rhythm,
Oh, won't you stop picking on me!"

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Fascinatin' Rhythm 1929
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Music by George Gershwin
© 1929 by Harms Inc. N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 08 April 2004 at 21.54
in association with Doug Grierson
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