Something Seems Tingle-Ingleing 1913 'High Jinks'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Feb 2006
2006

Beyond the Himalaya mountains,
where flows the great Tsanpo,
beside old Tibet's laughing fountains
gay, festive flowers grow.
To hands of merry youth and maiden
they yield their radiant bloom,
and all the balmy air is laden
with rich and rare perfume.
One very little drop, placed so,
one tiny little whiff, and lo!

Something seems
tingleingleingleingleingleing so queer,
here in your ear,
nearer and near,
like some strange mingling of
jingleingleingleingleingles
and tangleangleangleangleangles;
why you want to cry,
you want to die,
but all you do is laugh. Hi! Hi!
You've got the High Jinks! That's why!

Something seems
tingleingleingleingleingleing so queer,
here in your ear,
nearer and near,
like some strange mingling of
jingleingleingleingleingles
and tangleangleangleangleangles;
why you want to cry,
you want to die,
but all you do is laugh. Hi! Hi!
You've got the High Jinks! That's why!

The Roman god of jubilation
Old Momus was his name,
he wooed the goddess Exultation
of weird Buddhistic fame.
Their son was High Jinks,
a sensation,
who, ere he caught his breath,
soon dies of chronic cachination,
just laughed himself to death.
His soul became this wondrous flower,
who breathes it,
feels its mystic power:

Something seems
tingleingleingleingleingleing so queer,
here in your ear,
nearer and near,
like some strange mingling of
jingleingleingleingleingles
and tangleangleangleangleangles;
why you want to cry,
you want to die,
but all you do is laugh. Hi! Hi!
You've got the High Jinks! That's why!

Something seems
tingleingleingleingleingleing so queer,
here in your ear,
nearer and near,
like some strange mingling of
jingleingleingleingleingles
and tangleangleangleangleangles;
why you want to cry,
you want to die,
but all you do is laugh. Hi! Hi!
You've got the High Jinks! That's why!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
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Something Seems Tingle-Ingleing 1913
from the Musical Farce "High Jinks" by Rudolf Friml
Lyrics by Otto Hauerbach
© 1913 by G. Schirmer
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 26 February 2006 at 00.41
in association with Doug Grierson
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