A popular song from 1918
Words by Jimmy Lucas
Music by Billy Frisch
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Big Sam Green had a queen
A regular dance hall houn’
And every where this gal would go
Big Sam would sure be foun’
She worked down in Sam’s laundry
Waited on the trade all day
When an idle hour would roll around
You’d hear big Sam Green say
Chorus
Minnie, shimme for me
Minnie, shimme for me
Get way down, bend your knee
Do that lovin’ shiveree
Minnie, shimme for me
You’re as sweet as you can be.
You’re better than a Broadway show
You’re graceful when you move so slow
Say that’s some dance (Oh Boy) Let’s go
Minnie do the shimme for me
- Minnie Snow said I’ll go
And nurse all the boys from France
And every day, to cheer them up
She’ll do her little dance
The boys all seemed to like it
For they all would soon get well
Every time that she would pass their cots
You’d hear the boys all yell
Chorus
Minnie, shimme for me
Minnie, shimme for me
Get way down, bend your knee
Do that lovin’ shiveree
Minnie, shimme for me
You’re as sweet as you can be
A soldier in an ambulance
Got just one look at Minnie’s dance
And yelled “I’m cured” I’ll take one chance
Minnie do the shimme for me
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: