A 1912 popular song.
Words by Jean C. Havez.
Music by George Botsford.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Tell me have you ever seen an Eskimo
In the land of snow, at the pole you know?
Did you ever hear the music that they play up there?
It’s a bear, it’s a bear, it’s a Polar bear
Did you ever see them dancing on an icy floe?
They are frozen so, just to get a glow
Dancing in their bear skins
Warming up their fair skins
Wobbling the North Pole Todalo
Oh! Oh! Oh! Miss Eskimo
Leave your blubber and away we go
Chorus:
Keep dancing! Keep prancing!
To the Eskimo ragtime
It don’t matter whether young or old
Your teeth will chatter and your blood run cold, so
Keep playing! Keep swaying!
Jump from crag to crag
Keep right on moving or you sure will freeze
You are catching cold when you begin to sneeze
It’s a darn bad place for B. V. D’s
When you do that Eskimo, Forty-two below
Do that Eskimo Rag
- Men and women dress alike up there and so
Well you never know just who is your beau
You may think you are a dancing with a man, it’s great
Guess again, guess again, it’s your cousin Kate
When the ice begins to form upon your face, it’s soft
And when e’er you cough, why it all falls off
That’s against the custom, people never bust ’em
Everybody there is frozen face
Just hear this, cold storage Miss
Crack your face, because I want a kiss