From the 1922 musical “Little Nellie Kelly”.
words and music by George M. Cohan
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Music that is sentimental, Oriental, tempramental
Floats me over the ground
Any pretty melody, it has a real appeal to me
And I go dancing around
I go off my noddle like a sailor with his boodle
When the band commences to play
Boy, I nearly go crazy, I want to holler, Hooray!
We keep on
Chorus
Dancing, we love to be dancing, we love to be dancing night and day
Dancing to me is entrancing, I’m happy when the music’s jazzing away
We keep on
Dancing, we’re prancing and dancing, as long as a band will ever play
Wine and song we leave behind us, all night long you’re sure to find us
Dancing, we love to be dancing, we love to be dancing our worries away
- When the saxaphone is playing, then my heart is cabareting
I’m way up in the clouds
All my troubles disappear, I grab a perfect little dear
And dance my way through the crowds
Dancing every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday, Friday, Oh, those Saturday nights
You’ll find us shaking our shoulders, until they put out the light
We keep on
Sung here by Fred Feild: