[This song has content from an earlier time. No racial disparagement is intented.]
a 1922 popular song
written by Richard Howard
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Have you heard that brand new Indian melody
Something ’bout it makes a terrible hit with me
Everywhere you go they’re playing it, I declare
That rippin’ trippin’ got-em-all-a-skippin’ Tom Tom air
Let’s be on our way, to that cabaret
Chorus
Out in the night by the light of the Indian moon
See how they sway, while they play, to that Indian tune
Just hear them holler for more
You’d think that they were on the path of war
That old fire-water makes them do things they ought “notter”
All thru’ the dell, hear the yell of the warriors bold
They’ll sit around on the ground ’till the breaking of day
Pow-wow-wow-wow, shake your feet
Pow-wow-wow-wow you can’t beat
The dance that they do at the Indian cabaret
- You will hear the bands a-playing it everywhere
You will see the dancers swaying it to that air
Something ’bout that tune melodious can’t be beat
It wakes you, shakes you, comes right up and takes you
Off of your feet, come along with me, to that jamboree
Sung here by Fred Feild: