From the 1936 film “Follow the Fleet”
words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
As you listen to the band
Don’t you get a bubble?
As you listen to them play
Don’t you get a glow?
If you step out on the floor
You’ll forget your trouble
If you go into your dance
You’ll forget your woe, so
Chorus
Come get together
Let the dance floor feel your leather
Step as lightly as a feather
Let yourself go
Come hit the timber
Loosen up and start to limber
Can’t you hear that hot marimba
Let yourself go
Let yourself go
Relax and let yourself go
Relax, you’ve got yourself tied up in a knot
The night is cold but the music’s hot
So come cuddle closer
Don’t you dare to answer, “No Sir”
Butcher, Banker, Clerk and grocer
Let yourself go
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: