A popular song from 1911.
words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Honey, honey, can’t you hear?
Funny, funny music, dear
Ain’t the funny strain goin’ to your brain?
Like a bottle of wine, fine
Hon’, hon’, hon’, hon’, take a chance
One, one, one, one little dance
Can’t you see them all swaying up the hall?
Let’s be gettin’ in line
Chorus
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it
See that ragtime couple over there
Watch them throw their shoulders in the air
Snap their fingers, Honey, I declare
It’s a bear, it’s a bear, it’s a bear. There!
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it
Ain’t that music touching your heart?
Hear that trombone bustin’ apart?
Come, come, come, come let us start
Ev’rybody’s doin’ it now
- Baby, baby, get a stool
Maybe, maybe I’m a fool
Honey, don’t you smile let us rest awhile
I’m so weak in the chest, best
Go, go, go, go get a chair
No, no, no, no, leave it there
Honey, if the mob still are on the job
I’m as strong as the rest
Sung here by Fred Feild: