A popular song from 1914
Words by Jim Burris
Music by Chris Smith
The sheet music:
Lyrics
1. Now get your silks and satins on
And come and go with me
You are invited and I’m delighted
No one is slighted at the Fox Trot ball
They have the latest dances there
Now just you wait and see
I never miss ’em, so you can risk ’em
You can’t resist ’em when you’re in the hall
Syncopation there seems to fill the air
Come along, you needn’t have a fear, dear
CHORUS
When you start to fox trot around the floor
If the band stops a-playing
You’ll applaud for more
Everybody there will yell “Encore”
If it’s kind o’ “Honky Tonky”
Something like the “Monkey”
You hesitate a bit, then you hop and skip
‘Cause when you get a-going
Gee! you hate to quit
Oh! honey Loop it up! Loop it up!
Oh! baby Whoop it up! Whoop it up!
Old folk, young folks one and all
Everybody’s happy at the fox trot ball
2. I’ve got to get a ticket
Cause the place is getting packed
With eagle rockers and fancy squatters
And turkey trotters for the fox trot prance
Now just as soon’s the band begins
To play the Ball’n the Jack
You start a-dippin’, the tunes a-pippin’
It’s really gripping’ when you do that dance
Hear that drummer man keeping time so grand
It’s the latest thing that’s in the land and