a 1917 popular song
words and music by Spencer Williams
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Jonathan Parks:
Lyrics
- Stop, look, listen
If you would like to learn a dance
That you’re missing
It’s new and it’s the latest prance
Old Snow, yea Bo
Down South he’s got ’em going wild
With this new sensation
This new dance creation
Hush your mouth my honey child
If you care to go
Hurry, don’t be slow
Follow me, just follow me
And we will see the show
Chorus
Two-step, aint no two-step
New step, it’s a new step
You laugh until your sides will ache
When they all begin to shake
Hobble, ain’t no Hobble Wabble
It’s some Wabble
Bouncing ’round like a big rubber ball
It’s the Shim-Me-She-Wabble, that’s all
- Snow, will show you
Just how, to do this funny step
And I know you
Will vow, that it is full of pep
Let’s all go to Dark Town
Down where the lights shine bright
There we’ll see a movement
‘Riginal improvement
Oh, what a wonderful sight
If you want to be
In company with me
Come along, just come along
We’ll have a jubilee
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: