Snookey Ookums 1913

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 09 Nov 2006
2006

There's a married couple happily
living in apartment forty three,
I live right next door,
in apartment forty four.
Gee! but they're a mushy He and She.
Mushing seems to be their special'ty.
It would start you walking
if you heard them talking.

All day long he calls her
Snooky ookums, Snooky ookums,
all they do is talk like babies;
she's his jelly elly roll,
he's her sugey sugar bowl.
Here's the way they bill and coo,
Poogywoo poogywoo poogywoo.
All night long he calls her
Snooky ookums, snooky ookums,
all night long the neighbors shout:
"Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out!
They cry: "For goodness sake!
Don't keep us all awake,
with your snooky, ookey, ookey,
baby talk!"

All day long he calls her
Snooky ookums, Snooky ookums,
all they do is talk like babies;
she's his jelly elly roll,
he's her sugey sugar bowl.
Here's the way they bill and coo,
Poogywoo poogywoo poogywoo.
All night long he calls her
Snooky ookums, snooky ookums,
all night long the neighbors shout:
"Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out!
They cry: "For goodness sake!
Don't keep us all awake,
with your snooky, ookey, ookey,
baby talk!"

If you ever heard their mushy song,
if you saw how well they get along,
You would bet your life
that they weren't man and wife.
He's a little fellow, four foot tall.
Weighing just a hundred clothes and all;
She's a great big lady,
weighs a hundred eighty.

All day long he calls her
Snooky ookums, Snooky ookums,
all they do is talk like babies;
she's his jelly elly roll,
he's her sugey sugar bowl.
Here's the way they bill and coo,
Poogywoo poogywoo poogywoo.
All night long he calls her
Snooky ookums, snooky ookums,
all night long the neighbors shout:
"Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out!
They cry: "For goodness sake!
Don't keep us all awake,
with your snooky, ookey, ookey,
baby talk!"

All day long he calls her
Snooky ookums, Snooky ookums,
all they do is talk like babies;
she's his jelly elly roll,
he's her sugey sugar bowl.
Here's the way they bill and coo,
Poogywoo poogywoo poogywoo.
All night long he calls her
Snooky ookums, snooky ookums,
all night long the neighbors shout:
"Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out!
They cry: "For goodness sake!
Don't keep us all awake,
with your snooky, ookey, ookey,
baby talk!"

Soft karaoke
Words
piano
piano
piano
piano
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Snookey Ookums 1913
Words & Music by Irving Berlin
© 1913 by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 09 November 2006 at 11.31pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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