a 1922 popular song
words by Blanche Merrill
music by Leo Edwards
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
Becky was a dancer, look how she danced
Night-time and day she trip-toed away
She got a job in the ballet
But one night her foot made a slip
She fell on her back with, Oi! such a crack
She almost located her hip
They thought she was dead
From the bump on her head
She should be in bed but instead
Chorus
Becky is back in the ballet, kicking her feet to the sky
Becky is back in the ballet, doing a sweet butterfly
Look how she goes, up on her toes
She can pose on her toes on her big brother’s nose
She flies, she can flitter, hither and thither
Her feet they go with her
She holds up the foot while she smiles with the face
She tripples and skipples all over the place
She shakes with a shiver and quives with a quiver
Her father and mother will never forgive her
Since Becky is back in the ballet
Chorus
Becky is back in the ballet
Dancing away with her feet
Becky is back in the ballet
Look she can ne’er do a spleet
She kicks to the front, the back and the side
Some day she will kick and commit suicide
She kneels, it’s a twister
From kneeling so much on her knee is a blister
She goes all around, she goes all ’round the place
Someday she’ll get dizzy and fall on her face
No one can endure her, they’ll kill her or cure her
Her father and mother are goin’ to insure her
Since Becky is back in the ballet
Sung here by Fred Feild: