Mosquito Song 1908 Ziegfeld Follies

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 5 Sep 2008
2008

From the marshes of dear old New Jersey
we hasten when Summer is here,
we travel in bunches,
we carry no lunches.
For we find lots of food over here.
We are the light hearted mosquitoes.
We carry the fever and chills,
and we in the summer,
take place of the plumber,
that is by the length of our bills.

Oh! We've come over to sting New York.
And we sting, sting sting.
We'll be with you all right,
and you can't sleep at night,
while we sing, sing, sing.
The peekabo waist we consider good taste,
they close up when our song is sung.
Tom Platt and Depew,
we are after those two,
they'll be stung, stung, stung.

We've come over to sting New York.
And we sting, sting sting.
We'll be with you all right,
and you can't sleep at night,
while we sing, sing, sing.
The peekabo waist we consider good taste,
they close up when our song is sung.
Tom Platt and Depew,
we are after those two,
they'll be stung, stung, stung.

We get right in society circles,
we break all those blue blooded laws,
The swells are not in it.
No, not for a minute.
Compared to the "swells" that we cause.
We sting titled paupers from Europe
and girls who wear pompadours big.
We'll sting Billy Bryan
and Thomas F. Ryan
we'll lunch on John Rockfeller's wig.

Oh! We've come over to sting New York.
And we sting, sting sting.
We'll be with you all right,
and you can't sleep at night,
while we sing, sing, sing.
The peekabo waist we consider good taste,
they close up when our song is sung.
Tom Platt and Depew,
we are after those two,
they'll be stung, stung, stung.

We've come over to sting New York.
And we sting, sting sting.
We'll be with you all right,
and you can't sleep at night,
while we sing, sing, sing.
The peekabo waist we consider good taste,
they close up when our song is sung.
Tom Platt and Depew,
we are after those two,
they'll be stung, stung, stung.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Mosquito Song 1908
from Ziegfeld Follies 1908
Music by Maurice Levi
Lyrics by Harry B.Smith
© MCMVIII by The Cohan & Harris Pub.Co. - N.Y.City
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 5 September 2008 at 10.30
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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