From the musical comedy “The Bunch and Judy”, 1922.
Words by Anne Caldwell.
Music by Jerome Kern.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- A wooden soldier gaily marching on parade one day
Eyes right, Eyes left, ice cream
Espied a Russian dancing girl who rushed across his way
Some flap! Some map, some dream
There in a Russian garden that was full of snow and sleet
Gathering tonsilitis buds and chilblains for her feet
When he beheld the icicles that glistened on her nose
Falling for little “Frozen Face,” he started to propose
Burthen
“How do you do, Katinka
Ooh! do you Katinka think we could agree?
You’re such a nice girl a full of spice girl
Would cut no ice, girl; with me
You put the pet in Petrograd, my pet
I’ll pet you yet
And rubles like a rube, I’ll spend to give you joy
For when you wink a wink, that turns me pink
Katinka, I’m your soldier boy
- Divine Katina she would sink a Russian man-o’-war
Hiyi, hiyi, hiyo
Her voice is like the steam that whistles in a samovar
Hooray! Hooroo! let’s go
Beautiful as a turtle when she dances on the roof
While for endurance, she’s a bear, a Russian woof-woof-woof
So full o’ pep, she does a step while seated on the ground
Every night her appetite is like a Russian hound
Sung here by Fred Feild: