When You Wake Up Dancing 1918 'Toot-Toot!'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 03 Mar 2005

When the "Big Ben's" warning
breaks on the sleepy ear,
some people greet the morning with
a grumble and a sneer;
such dull grouches scorning,
wise folk will appear,
full of pep and zest and sing,
jigging to a Highland Fling,
Hididdledee, Hididdledee
Cheer for ev'rything!

When you wake up dancing
at the peep o' day
and your eyes are glancing
with a light that's gay,
your years advancing
all are brushed away
then life is whizzing, pulses fizzing,
night time, daytime both are play time,
start romancing for the skies seem bright
when you wake up dancing in the morning light
and your troubles take their flight
you wake up dancing and the day's all right.

When you wake up dancing
at the peep o' day
and your eyes are glancing
with a light that's gay,
your years advancing
all are brushed away
then life is whizzing, pulses fizzing,
night time, daytime both are play time,
start romancing for the skies seem bright
when you wake up dancing in the morning light
and your troubles take their flight
you wake up dancing and the day's all right.

Some folk wake up ragging
filled with a merry glow;
So the people do a sagging,
dragging step that's lame and slow,
don't let yours be lagging,
life's a dance we know,
get the rhythm toe and heel,
join the crowd and do the reel,
Hididdledee, Hididdledee
Gee! How good you feel.

When you wake up dancing
at the peep o' day
and your eyes are glancing
with a light that's gay,
your years advancing
all are brushed away
then life is whizzing, pulses fizzing,
night time, daytime both are play time,
start romancing for the skies seem bright
when you wake up dancing in the morning light
and your troubles take their flight
you wake up dancing and the day's all right.

When you wake up dancing
at the peep o' day
and your eyes are glancing
with a light that's gay,
your years advancing
all are brushed away
then life is whizzing, pulses fizzing,
night time, daytime both are play time,
start romancing for the skies seem bright
when you wake up dancing in the morning light
and your troubles take their flight
you wake up dancing and the day's all right.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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When You Wake Up Dancing 1918 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Berton Braley
from "Toot-Toot!"
© MCMXVIII by T.B.Harms Inc.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 03 March 2005 at 12.02
in association with Doug Grierson
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