Six Times Six Is Thirty-Six

(and six is forty-two)
From the 1917 revue “Hitchy Koo”
Words by Bert Hanlon
Music by Wm. White

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. Ever since I’ve been so very high
   I’ve tried to multiply
   At spelling I was awful bad
   But numbers nearly drove me mad
   History, Gee! that’s a cinch
   But mathematics, they’re the clinch
   I don’t know why on earth I’m thick
   But I simply can’t do ‘rithmetic

Chorus
Six times six is thirty-six
And six is forty-two
I don’t care what you may say
I know that’s hard to do
But it always keeps me worried
Then that makes me feel blue
Six times six is thirty-six
And six is forty-two

2. Gee, I wish that I could add
   I’d like to be as smart as dad
   There’s not a figure he don’t know
   He keeps books for a Broadway show
   I had a little rabbit once
   And Gee, it was an awful dunce
   But still that thing could multiply
   If rabbits can, then why can’t I?

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Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: