From the musical revue “Hello, Broadway” 1915
Words and music by George M. Cohan
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Everybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it
Everybody knows that tune
And so they fiddle it fiddle it
On their violins morning night and noon
That mysterious rag
And a thousand other melodies
Sweeter than the honey from the honey bees
You’ll say you Like them, won’t you?
You know who wrote them, don’t you?
Midnight choo-choos play his music, too
Right through and through
Oh, yes, they do, too
All night long I love to hear it, be near it
So, take me where they play
Those Irving Berlin melodies
Chorus
Oh, when the brass band plays
Those Irving Berlin melodies
The whole world sways
With the Irving Berlin melodies
The crowds go crazy and they shout hurray
That’s the only music that we want you to play
Keep a beating it, keep a beating it
And completing it, and repeating it
In a thousand different kind of keys
Come on and hear, come on and hear
Alexander’s ragtime brass band
Play those Irving Berlin melodies
He’s a devil, he’s a devil
He’s a devil with the ragtime tunes
Italian op’ra singers have learned to snap their fingers
The world goes round to the sound
Of his International Rag
Mister Sousa, Mister Sousa
You’re all through
Merry Widow, Candy Kiddo, all through, too
He writes those melodies that seem to please
That seem to tease
Here on my knees I ask you please
Write another for me
Tho’ the high brows loudly holler
Cut ’em out, cut ’em out, cut ’em out
We just grab them by the collar
Put ’em out, put ’em out, put ’em out
We love our little music kid
For you know what his music did
Man and child he set them wild
With his ragtime fiddle de dee
D-I-X-I don’t know how to dpell it
But I’m going, yes
I’m going back to my home in Dixieland
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: