From “Ziegfeld Follies of 1920”
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
There she goes, just take a glance at her
There she goes, go have a dance with her
‘Ere she goes, she’s got a devil in her dancing toes
Beneath her stylish clothes
A little bit of her ankle shows
Which makes a hit with her dancing beaus
And that’s the reason everybody knows
Chorus
She’s a syncopated vampire
Just a syncopated vamp
Among a hundred thousand acres
Of American shoulder shakers she’s the champ
This little jazzy Cleopatra
Has the people gazing at her
She sticks to her partner like a penny postage stamp
If you ever had a fox-trot with the syncopated vamp
You’d say it’s like a lot of liquor
For your vision begins to flicker like a lamp
She doesn’t wink at the boys, she’s much bolder
She only flirts with her shoulder
So they call her the syncopated vamp
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: