Climbing Up the Scale

From “Music Box Revue” 1923
words and music by Irving Berlin

The sheet music:

Climbing-Up-the-Scale – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Climbing_Up_The_Scale – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Singing is a part of ev’ry creature
    Ev’rybody likes to hum a tune
    Let me be your little singing teacher
    I’ve prepared your lesson
    You can learn it soon

Chorus
Strike a key and begin with do
Do re mi and the rest you know
One, two, three, come along, let’s go
Climbing up the scale
Oh, what fun going up and when
That’s all done you go down and then
Ev’ryone should begin again
Climbing up the scale
A tenor or a soprano
Can try it on a piano
Strike a key and begin with do
Do re mi and the rest you know
One, two, three, come along, let’s go
Climbing up the scale

  1. In this very ordinary chorus
    There’s an old effect that never fails
    So we’ll ask you to do something for us
    While we sing the chorus
    You go up the scale

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: