(Pull it out, pull it out, pull it out)
From the show “Step This Way”, 1916
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- “Take me to the dentist right away”
Shouted little Johnny Jones one day
I’ve got a tooth that’s hurting me
And I simply can’t delay
In about an hour he was there
Standing right beside the dentist’s chair
And when they sat him inside
To the dentist, Johnny cried
Chorus
I’ve got a sweet tooth bothering me
Pull it out! Pull it out! Pull it out!
It isn’t candy or molasses
It isn’t honey, jam or cake
But when a sweet young lady passes
My tooth begins to ache
Like the dickens
I don’t use sugar at all in my coffee or my tea
But when I meet Rosie, Flo or May
My wisdom tooth says, “Keep away!”
But my sweet tooth starts bothering me
- Johnny hollered out, “There’s no one home
In the second story of my dome
Except a thousand ladies fair
And it’s like a honeycomb
Ev’ry night when I sit down to eat
First I have my oysters, soup and meat
And then my fav’rite dessert
Is the rustle of a skirt
Extra Chorus from 1916 78rpm record by M.J. O’Connell (probably Billy Murray)
I’ve got a sweet tooth bothering me.
Pull it out, pull it out, pull it out!
It isn’t ice cream, cake or Huyler’s. *
I’ve not been eating sugar cane.
But every time I look at “chickens”,
Why, my tooth begins to pain–like the Dickens.
I don’t use sugar at all in my coffee or my tea.
But whenever I go near the beach,
My eye tooth says, “oh there’s a peach”.
But my sweet tooth starts bothering me.
- Huyler’s was a New York candy and restaurant chain that operated from 1874-1964.
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: