Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
1919
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Soon you will meet
Folks on the street,
And you’ll want to know the little tune
They croon,
I’m one who knows Just how it goes.
I will sing that little thing that
You’re missin’,
Now, listen:
[Chorus]
Tee-ood-le-um-bum-bo
That’s how it goes.
Tee-ood-le-um-bum-bo
The tune that grows
More chummy and hummy ev’ry day:
So snappy, each happy
Man and miss’ll
Learn to whistle
Tee-ood-le-um-bum-bo
And then you’ll see
No matter where you go
That tune will be.
I’ll bet you it gets you
When it becomes
The tune that ev’rybody hums
(hum)
The tune that ev’rybody hums.
Recommended Citation
De Sylva, B.G.; Jackson, Arthur J.; and Gershwin, Geroge, "Tee-Oodle-Um-Bum-Bo" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1070.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1070
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Comments
Tee-Oodle-Um-Bum-Bo
Words by B.G. De Sylva and Arthur J. Jackson
Music by George Gershwin
New York: T.B. Harms (1919)
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