From the film “The Wizard of Oz”, 1938.
Words by E. Y. Harburg.
Music by Harold Arlen.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Listen all you chillun to that voodoo moan
There’s a modern villun worser
Than that old boogie woogie
When that goofy critter spots your fancy clothes
He injects a jitter
Starts you dancing on a thousand toes
There he goes
Chorus
Who’s that hiding in the tree top?
It’s that rascal The Jitterbug
Should you catch him buzzing ’round you
Keep away from The Jitterbug
Oh! The bees in the breeze
And the bats in the trees
Have a terrible, horrible buzz
But the bees in the breeze
And the bats in the trees
Couldn’t do what The Jitterbug does
So be careful of that rascal
Keep away from The Jitterbug
The Jitterbug
Patter
Oh! The Jitter, Oh! The Bug
Oh! The Jitterbug
Bugabug, bugabug, bugaboo
In a twitter, in the throes
Oh the critter’s
Got me dancing on a thousand toes
Thar’ she blows