Zizzy Ze Zum Zum 1898 'Cook's Tours'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 29 Jun 2005

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 yappie of the chappie
to the deep bazoo,
of the raggedy tag old bum,
the whole town rang
with the rattlety bang,
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 yappie of the chappie
to the deep bazoo,
of the raggedy tag old bum,
the whole town rang
with the rattlety bang,
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 yappie of the chappie
to the deep bazoo,
of the raggedy tag old bum,
the whole town rang
with the rattlety bang,
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
Words by Karl Kennett - Music by Lyn Udall
Sung With Great Success by Josie Hall
in "Cook's Tours" at Koster & Bial's N.Y.
© 1898 by M. Witmark & Sons, N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 29 June 2005 at 10.29
in association with Doug Grierson
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