Becky Joined a Musical Show

A popular song from 1912
Words and music by Irving Berlin


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Miss Becky Rosenstein
    Met an actor from the stage
    Who seemed to know a lot
    He said, “You’re losing time
    Working for your father
    With a shape like you have got
    What you ought to do,” he said
    “Is go on the stage
    You’ll be a big success I’ll vow”
    She said, “I understand”
    Went to the Shuberts and
    Let me tell you now

Chorus:
Becky’s got a job in a musical show
She’s showing off her figure in the very front row
The fellows raise the dickens
When Becky starts a-kickin’
And all the boys are calling her a “Yiddisha chicken”
Becky’s getting twenty dollars a week
And how she does it no one seems to know
She’s got a coat made of seal, corsets with steel
She comes to the theatre in an automobile
And all of Miss Rebecca’s relatives
Want to go with a musical show

  1. Becky’s got jewelry
    Lots of diamonds that she bought
    On the installment plan
    And let me tell you
    She smokes a Turkish cigarette
    As good as any man can
    And any night that she
    Doesn’t feel like working
    She stays home and there it ends
    Nobody bothers her
    She and the manager
    Are the best of friends