Try This For That Tired Feeling
From the musical “Ballyhoo”, 1930.
Words by Harry Ruskin and Leighton K. Brill.
Music by Louis Alter.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Listen, all you weary fellows
Here’s a good tip, very cheap
Do your muscles ache?
Do you stay awake
‘Cause you’re too darn tired to sleep?
If you once try out this system
All your pains will disappear
And you’ll greet the dawn
Without a yawn
And a smile from ear to ear
Don’t you listen to friends
Each has a fav’rite M. D.
All he’ll give is advice
As doctor’s advice isn’t free
Say no! Better save yourself that dough
Refrain
Why don’t you try this for that tired feeling?
This scheme doesn’t miss for that tired feeling
Lay ’em down on a table
Place your thumbs on the spine
Push just as hard as you are able
Keeps you feeling fine
That will put some pep in your morning’s morning
Drive those cobwebs out of that sleepy head
Twist it a little bit, front, then back
You’ll hear the vertebrae crack, smack
Why don’t you try this for that tired feeling?