Gershwin: Fascinating Rhythm

Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm

That pit-apats through my brain;

So darn persistent,

The day isn't distant

When it'll 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.

What a mess you're making!

The neighbors 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

O find at night no work has been done.

I know that

Once it didn't 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,

Oh, won't you stop picking on me?