It Goes Like This

(That Funny Melody)
A jingly comedy song from 1928
Words by Irving Caesar
Music by Cliff Friend

The sheet music:

It Goes Like This – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:

It_Goes_Like_This – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. There’s a funny melody
    It’s a pretty melody
    Someone brought it over from across the sea
    Ever since the day it came
    I have tried to learn its name
    Wat’s it all about?
    Maybe you can help me out

Chorus:
It goes like this: La-la-la
La-la-la, la-la-la, La-La-La
It goes like this: Dee-dee-dee
Dee-dee-dee, Dee-Dee Dee
Then it goes: Dy-dy-dy-dy, Dy, Dy
Then it goes: Doh, doh doh doh, doh-doh
And right in the middle of the dog-gone thing
Everybody starts to sing: Ta-ra-tah-tah
It goes like this, Ta-ra-tah-tah
It goes like that
What can the name of it be?
It goes like this: Too-doo-doo-too-doo-doo
Too-doo-doo Too-doo-doo
Oh, what a funny melody

  1. Everybody that you meet
    All the kiddies on the street
    They all know this little melody so sweet
    It’s a catchy little air
    You can hear it everywhere
    Ask a man who knows
    And I’ll tell you how it goes

Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: