Gershwin - FASCINATING RHYTHM

"FASCINATING RHYTHM"
from Lady, Be Good (1924)
LYRICS BY IRA GERSHWIN
(Music by George Gershwin)

    (Verse)
  1. Got a little rhythm, (A) a rhythm, (A) a rhythm (A)
  2. That pit-a-pats through my brain; (B)
  3. So darn persistent, (C)
  4. The day isn't distant (C)
  5. When it'll drive me insane. (B)
  6. Comes in the morning (D)
  7. Without any warning, (D)
  8. And hangs around me all day. (E)
  9. I'll have to sneak up to it (F)
10. Someday, and speak up to it. (F)
11. I hope it listens when I say: (E)

    (Refrain)
  1. Fascinating Rhythm, (A)
  2. You've got me on the go! (B)
  3. Fascinating Rhythm, (A)
  4. I'm all a-quiver. (C)
  5  What a mess you're making! (D)
  6  The neighbors want to know (B)
  7  Why I'm always shaking (D)
  8  Just like a flivver. (C)
  9. Each morning I get up with the sun -- (E)
10  Start a-hopping, (F)
11  Never stopping -- (F)
12  To find at night no work has been done. (E)
13  I know that once it didn't matter (G)
14  But now you're doing wrong; (H)
15  When you start to patter (G)
16  I'm so unhappy. (I)
17  Won't you take a day off? (J)
18  Decide to run along (H)
19  Somewhere far away off -- (J)
20  And make it snappy! (I)
21  Oh, how I long to be (K)
22  The man I used to be! (K)
23  Fascinating Rhythm, (L)
24  Oh, won't you stop picking
        on me? (K)