A popular song from 1919
Words and music by J. Berni Barbour
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
1. Feeling bad all night and evening
Been so sad just cause I’m grieving
All I had just ran away
Just yesterday and gone to stay
I’ll be glad when they start playing
When I hear that prompter call
Get your partners for the grand march
At the shimmie ball
Chorus:
Shimmie! Shimmie!
Like floating on the ocean
Shimmie! Shimmie!
In perfect locomotion
While you giggle, do that wiggle
Feel it going thru your soul and body
That’s all, say, come on
Gimmie! Gimmie!
That wild infatuation
There’s just one thing makes me fall
It’s that mad intoxication
Let me dance, that’s all
At the dark town Shimmie Ball
2. Grand march starts prompt at eleven
Dance right on, straight thru till seven
Get your Taxi, be on time
Come dressed up fine, fall right in line
Nothing but the latest fashions
will be worn at this event
Swell-dom will be demonstrated
At the shimmie ball
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: