Fascinating Rhythm Songtext
von Cliff Edwards

There′s a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm
That pitter pats through my brain
So darn persistent
The day isn't distant
When it will 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 I'll speak up to it
I hope it listens when I say

Fascinating rhythm, you 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
To 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, you gotta stop picking on me

Fascinating rhythm, you 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
To 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, you gotta stop picking on me