Tip-Tip Tippy Canoe 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 30 September 2010
2010

Big Chief SureFire loved a maid named
Princess Can'tSwimWaterMakesHer'Fraid
He'd no flivver rides to give her
So he'd take her on the rover
In a little birch canoe he'd made.
When he'd start his big love talk
PrincessCan'tSwim used to balk
When she'd squawk he'd say get out and walk.

ChipChip, ChipChip, ChipChip,
Chippewa won't you be my loving, little squaw
Ev'ry night you'd hear that big chief sighing.
She'd say no and they'd start squabbling
He'd say "Oh" and then start wabbling
"Let me out" you'd hear the maiden crying
He knew she couldn't walk upon the water
so he'd grunt and say it's up to you.
Will you?
Won't you?
If you don't
I'll tip tip tip this tippy canoe.

ChipChip, ChipChip, ChipChip,
Chippewa won't you be my loving, little squaw
Ev'ry night you'd hear that big chief sighing.
She'd say no and they'd start squabbling
He'd say "Oh" and then start wabbling
"Let me out" you'd hear the maiden crying
He knew she couldn't walk upon the water
so he'd grunt and say it's up to you.
Will you?
Won't you?
If you don't
I'll tip tip tip this tippy canoe.

Ev'ry time she'd rock the boat
That big chief used to get
poor Can'tSwim's goat.
On the river she would shiver
Ev'ry time the boat would quiver
For the princess couldn't swim or float.
He'd say Big Chief love but you
She'd say "All right prove you do,
Buy a Ford and sell this darn canoe."

ChipChip, ChipChip, ChipChip,
Chippewa won't you be my loving, little squaw
Ev'ry night you'd hear that big chief sighing.
She'd say no and they'd start squabbling
He'd say "Oh" and then start wabbling
"Let me out" you'd hear the maiden crying
He knew she couldn't walk upon the water
so he'd grunt and say it's up to you.
Will you?
Won't you?
If you don't
I'll tip tip tip this tippy canoe.

ChipChip, ChipChip, ChipChip,
Chippewa won't you be my loving, little squaw
Ev'ry night you'd hear that big chief sighing.
She'd say no and they'd start squabbling
He'd say "Oh" and then start wabbling
"Let me out" you'd hear the maiden crying
He knew she couldn't walk upon the water
so he'd grunt and say it's up to you.
Will you?
Won't you?
If you don't
I'll tip tip tip this tippy canoe.

Soft karaoke
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piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Tip-Tip Tippy Canoe 1920
Music by James F.Hanley
Lyrics by Ballard MacDonald
© MCMXX by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.Inc.Copr. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 30 September 2010 at 11.25
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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