Historic Sheet Music Collection

Authors

Irving Berlin

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1911

Comments

MacIntosh Collection

As sung by Lydia Barry at the Winter Garden, New York

New York (112 West 38 St., New York) : Ted Snyder Co., c1911.

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Honey, honey, can’t you hear?
Funny, funny music, dear;
Ain’t the funny strain
Goin’ to your brain
Like a bottle of wine, fine,
Hon’, hon’, hon’, hon’, take a chance,
One, one, one, one, little dance;
Can’t you see them all swaying up the hall?
Let’s be getting’ in line.

[Chorus]
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it,
Doin’ it, doin’ it,
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it,
Doin’ it, doin’ it,
See that rag-time couple over there,
Watch them throw their shoulders in the air,
Snap their fingers, Honey, I declare,
It’s a bear, it’s a bear, it’s a bear.
There!
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it,
Doin’ it, doin’ it,
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it,
Doin’ it, doin’ it,
Ain’t that music touching your heart?
Hear that trombone bustin’ apart?
Come, come, come, come let us start,
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it now.

[Verse 2]
Baby, baby, get a stool,
Maybe, maybe I’m a fool;
Honey, don’t you smile,
Let us rest a while,
I’m so weak in the chest, best,
Go, go, go, go, get a chair,
No, no, no, no, leave it there;
Honey, if the mob still are on the job,
I’m as strong as the rest.

[Chorus]

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