From the musical “Madame Sherry”, 1910.
words by Otto Harbach
music by Karl Hoschna
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- No longer does the lithesome miss
Cavort in catchy waltz
The two-step and the ragtime bliss
She found alas was false
The schottische and the polka swing
She’s laid them all away
Aesthetic dancing is the thing
That holds the “floor” today, Ah!
Chorus
Every little movement has a meaning all its own
Every thought and feeling
By some posture can be shown
And every love thought that comes a stealing
O’er your being must be revealing
All its sweetness in some appealing
Little gesture all all its own
- It makes no difference fat or slim
You must get in the game
While someone plays a Turkish hymn
Just let your soul inflame
Your arms and legs grow elequent
And inner thoughts sublime
Express themselves with temperament
While you are keeping time, Ah!
Sung here by Fred Feild: