That Charlie Chaplin Walk 1915

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 28 Oct 2004

Remember when ev'ry one
danced in the town?
It got such a hold on the people around;
Made such a hit that they all got it bad;
And ev'rybody just simply went mad!
It got so they danced
all the nights and the days,
if you were good you made a hit;
but since moving pictures
became all the craze,
ev'ryone now must admit

It doesn't matter anywhere you go,
watch 'em coming out of any Cinema show,
shuffling along,
they're acting like a rabbit,
when you are Charlie Chaplin
you can't help but get the habit.
First they stumble over both their feet,
swing their sticks
and then look up and down the street,
Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers,
all your wife's relations
and a half a dozen others,
In London, Paris, or New York.
Ev'rybody does that Charlie Chaplin Walk!

It doesn't matter anywhere you go,
watch 'em coming out of any Cinema show,
shuffling along,
they're acting like a rabbit,
when you are Charlie Chaplin
you can't help but get the habit.
First they stumble over both their feet,
swing their sticks
and then look up and down the street,
Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers,
all your wife's relations
and a half a dozen others,
In London, Paris, or New York.
Ev'rybody does that Charlie Chaplin Walk!

Since Charlie Chaplin became all the craze,
ev'ryone copies his funny old ways;
they copy his hat
and the curl in his hair,
his moustache is something
you cannot compare!
They copy the ways
he makes love to the girls,
his method really is a treat;
there's one thing 'bout Charlie
they never will get
and that is the shoes on his feet.

It doesn't matter anywhere you go,
watch 'em coming out of any Cinema show,
shuffling along,
they're acting like a rabbit,
when you are Charlie Chaplin
you can't help but get the habit.
First they stumble over both their feet,
swing their sticks
and then look up and down the street,
Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers,
all your wife's relations
and a half a dozen others,
In London, Paris, or New York.
Ev'rybody does that Charlie Chaplin Walk!

It doesn't matter anywhere you go,
watch 'em coming out of any Cinema show,
shuffling along,
they're acting like a rabbit,
when you are Charlie Chaplin
you can't help but get the habit.
First they stumble over both their feet,
swing their sticks
and then look up and down the street,
Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers,
all your wife's relations
and a half a dozen others,
In London, Paris, or New York.
Ev'rybody does that Charlie Chaplin Walk!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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That Charlie Chaplin Walk 1915
Words & Music by Nat D. Ayer
© 1915 by B. Feldman & Co. London
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 28 October 2004 at 16.45
in association with Doug Grierson
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