Telephone Your Rivky Izzie 1910

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 18 Nov 2009
2009

Listen to my talking, Izzie,
while I make a speak,
Father thinks you can't support
a wife on twelve a week.
Me, he says, you must not visit,
but my love is yours, it is it,
so to see you I must make a sneak.
Don't you write me letters,
or my heart will give a fright,
Brother Jake,
he goes to night school,
he would read them right.
I have got a scheme that's better,
tho' it costs more than a letter,
'Phone me where I work before it's night.

Telephone your Rivky, Izzie,
Call me on the string,
Dingalingaling
Don't forget or I'll feel dizzy,
Number five, oy, oy, oy, Spring
and if Middle tells you "busy"
Give her hello, dear,
till my voice you hear,
Telephone your Rivsky, Izzie,
make a dingle dingle in my ear.

Telephone your Rivky, Izzie,
Call me on the string,
Dingalingaling
Don't forget or I'll feel dizzy,
Number five, oy, oy, oy, Spring
and if Middle tells you "busy"
Give her hello, dear,
till my voice you hear,
Telephone your Rivsky, Izzie,
make a dingle dingle in my ear.

Izzie, dear,
I wish that button holes
you wouldn't make,
Try another bus'ness,
make some money for my sake.
Be a doctor, or a liar,
even be an airship flyer,
Button holes won't pay
for cheese and cake,
Be an actor, like that
Mister Cohen on Broadway,
Do a Chanticleer dance,
be a rooster in the play.
If you cannot make theatre,
be a ticket speculator,
Then to you I will not have to say.

Telephone your Rivky, Izzie,
Call me on the string,
Dingalingaling
Don't forget or I'll feel dizzy,
Number five, oy, oy, oy, Spring
and if Middle tells you "busy"
Give her hello, dear,
till my voice you hear,
Telephone your Rivsky, Izzie,
make a dingle dingle in my ear.

Telephone your Rivky, Izzie,
Call me on the string,
Dingalingaling
Don't forget or I'll feel dizzy,
Number five, oy, oy, oy, Spring
and if Middle tells you "busy"
Give her hello, dear,
till my voice you hear,
Telephone your Rivsky, Izzie,
make a dingle dingle in my ear.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Telephone Your Rivky Izzie 1910
Music by Lillian Shaw
Lyrics by Addison Burkhardt
© MCMX by Harry von Tilzer Mus.Pub.Co. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 22.50
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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