(Yea-man)
From the 1942 film “What’s Cookin”
Words and music by Roger Segure, Bill Hardy, Vic Schoen.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
I feel the spirit
Are you happy?
Yes, I’m happy
Then it’s time to sing Yes! Yes!
Chorus
Well just say
Yea-a-man, Yea-a-man
Yea-a-man, Yea-man
I feel the spirit
Well just say
Yea-a-man, Yea-a-man
Yea-a-man, Yea-man
Patter
Way down south in Tennessee
I used to sit on my pappy’s knee
He told me Son as you go through life
Trouble’s gonna stab you like a carving knife
Yea-a-man, Yea-a-man
Yea-a-man, Yea-man
Patter
If you’ve got rhythm, you don’t need rhyme
Close your eyes and just beat time
Clap your hands and start to swing
Here we go ev’rybody sing
Yea-a-man, Yea-a-man
Yea-a-man, Yea-man
Patter
Hello, Saint Peter said Memphis Sam
Just open up those pearly gates
For here I am I’m the
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from Company “B”
When Gabriel’s horn is gone
Jus call on me
Yea-a-man, Yea-a-man
Yea-a-man, Yea-man
Patter
A two-faced woman and a jealous man
Is the cause of trouble since the world began
Steal my chicken and my ham gravy, too
But draw the line when it comes to you
Yea-a-man, Yea-a-man
Yea-a-man, Yea-man
Yea-a-man, Yea-man