From “Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic”, 1918
Words and music by Phil Ponce
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In school I have an awful time to learn arithmetic
Now that’s one thing that gets my goat
The teacher says I’m thick
She makes me learn Gozinto altho’ I swear I won’t
‘Cause some things I can understand
While other things I don’t
Chorus:
One gozinto two, two gozinto four
Ma gozinto pa’s clothes when he gozinto snore
Pa gozinto trouble and then gozinto fight
But Ma gozinfer a rolling pin
And Pa gozouta sight
- Gozinto should be easy work
For kids as smart as me
Because I know on autobiles a clutch gozinto three
Now when I’ve learned my lessons
You’ll get a chance to see
How bread and jam gozinto a hungry kid like me
Chorus:
Two gozinto four, four gozinto eight
Pa gozinto places that keep him out so late
Ma gozinto ‘sterics and then gozinto bed
But what gozinto the corn beef hash
I can’t get thru my head
Chorus 2 (from Victor 78rpm record by Frances White):
One gozinto three, three gozinto six
Nothing ever sticks to me, not even six times six
Sister Sue gozinto make herself look swell
But what she puts upon her face I promised not to tell
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: