Lyrics: Ira Gershwin
Music: George Gershwin
Got a little rhythm,a rhythm,a rhythm
That pit-a-pats through my brain
So darn persistent
The day isn‘t distant
When itll drive me insane
Comes in the morning
Without any warning
And hangs around me all day
I’ll have to sneak up to it
Someday and speak up to it
I hope it listens when I say
Fascinating rhythm,
You‘ve got me on the go.
Fascinating rhythm,
I'm all a-quiver,
When a mess you're making.
The neighbours want to know
Why I'm always shaking
Just like a flivver
Each morning I get up with the sun
Start a-hopping,Never stopping
To find at night no work has been done
I know that once it didnt matter
But now you're doing wrong
When you start to patter
I'm so unhappy
Won't you take a day off
Decide to run along
Somewhere far away off
And make it snappy
Oh how I long to be the man I used to be.
Fascinating rhythm,
On won't you stop picking on me.
(postlude)