A popular song from 1914.
Words and music by Earl Carroll and Harry Carroll
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
A little girl named Betty Lee
Who came to town from Tennessee
She knew the two-step
And every new step
Was the same as “A” “B” “C”
A lot of dancing beaus she had
But she just craves her Daddy, Dad
When the music played, Oh! Betty made
For her Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, and cried
CHORUS
Oh! Pop! Oh! Pop!
Oh! Pop! Oh! Pop!
Come do the Fox Trot
Oh! Pop! Oh! Pop!
I tell you what, I love the Fox Trot
Everybody wants to get that funny step
Everybody’s full of “pep”
You’ve got to run, run, run, run
Right thru it, to do it
Oh! That slippery slide
Just put your hands right on your side
Now cover ground just like a hound
Was running ‘round you
Get a wiggle on you
Pop! Oh! Pop! Oh! Pop!
Do the funny Fox Trot
2. Oh! Betty danced in every way
She even danced in jail one day
They did the lock-step
But now the Fox Step
Is the prison’s cabaret
She was her Daddy’s only child
And then her Daddy only smiled
When he heard that glide and Betty cried
For her Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, so wild