A popular song from 1912
Words and music by E. Ray Goetz and Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Fiddler Joe from Kokomo
Took lessons on the piccolo
After seven years or so
He could play a violin
Beneath his whiskered chin
He’d tuck his violin
And when you least expected
Fiddler Joseph would begin
Chorus
On his fid-fid-fid-fid-fid-fid-fiddle-dee-dee!
He played a melody
As plain as plain could be
Now he might have played that tune
On his harp or his bassoon
But he played it on his fid-fid-fiddle-dee-dee!
- Joseph met a girl last Spring
Who said, “Come up and bring a ring”
Joseph had no ring to bring
So he brought his violin
A cunning B flat grin
Hung from his whiskered chin
And when the maiden shouted
“Mister Fiddler Man, begin”
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: