From the 1936 film “Captain January”.
Words by Sidney Mitchell.
Music by Lew Pollack.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Next Friday night you’re all invited
To dance from eight to five
All the fishes still alive are having a ball
It’s some affair, they’ll all be there
From the herring to the whale
They’ll turn out to shake a scale
In Neptune’s Hall
Refrain
Come along and follow me
To the bottom of the sea
We’ll join in the jamboree
At the Codfish Ball
Lobsters dancing in a row
Shuffle off to Buffalo
Jellyfish sway to and fro
At the Codfish Ball
Finnan-haddie leads the eel
Through an Irish reel
The catfish is a dancing man
But he can’t can-can
Like the sardine can
Tunas truckin’ left and right
Minnies moochin’, what a night!
There won’t be a hook in sight
At the Codfish Ball
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: