Zizzy Ze Zum Zum 1898

by James Pitt-Payne, london UK - 26 Aug 2006
2006

A happy little chappie
at the club one day
had nothing at all to do.
So he wrote a little ditty
in a rag time way
and sang a verse or two,
and the other little chappies
when they heard that song,
they said: "It's a peach, by gum!"
and they all joined in and
sang like sin
Ze zizzy ze zum, zum, zum.

Ze zizzy ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum zum
that was the rag refrain
Zizzy ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum
it drove them all insane
from the yappy little chappie
to the deep bazoo
of the raggedy tag old bum
the whole town rang
with the rattlety tang
of Ze zizzy, ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum, zum, zum.

The neatest little sweetest little maiden gay
with a little wooly dog on a chain.
Was skipping and a tripping
on her homeward way,
and caught the rag refrain,
and she sang it to the spieler
of the belfry chimes
and he to his belfry clumb
and the chime he chome in the
glimm'ring gloam
was Ze zizzy ze zum, zum, zum.

Ze zizzy ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum zum
that was the rag refrain
Zizzy ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum
it drove them all insane
from the yappy little chappie
to the deep bazoo
of the raggedy tag old bum
the whole town rang
with the rattlety tang
of Ze zizzy, ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum, zum, zum.

The happy little chappie got a dreadful jolt
when he thought of this awful crime.
So he took his little ditty
and he tried to bolt
they caught him just in time,
he is tenting and repenting
on a red hot stove,
where the little red devils come,
and they don't do a thing but
make him sing
Ze zizzy ze zum, zum, zum.

Ze zizzy ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum zum
that was the rag refrain
Zizzy ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum
it drove them all insane
from the yappy little chappie
to the deep bazoo
of the raggedy tag old bum
the whole town rang
with the rattlety tang
of Ze zizzy, ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum zum
zizzy ze zum, zum, zum.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Zizzy Ze Zum Zum 1898
Music by Lyn Udall
Lyrics by Karl Kennett
© 1898 by M. Witmark & Sons
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 26 August 2006 at 10.53am
in association with Doug Grierson
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