A popular song from 1909
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Ev’ryone was singing, dancing, springing
At a wedding yesterday
Yiddle, on his fiddle played some ragtime
And when Sadie heard him play
She jumped up and looked him in the eyes
Yiddle swelled his chest ‘way out
Ev’ryone was taken by surprise
When they heard Sadie shout
Chorus
Yiddle in the middle of your fiddle
Play some ragtime
Get busy, I’m dizzy
I’m feeling two years young
Mine choc’late baby
If you’ll maybe play for Sadie
Some more ragtime
Yiddle, don’t you stop, if you do, I’ll drop
For I just can’t make my eyes shut up
Yiddle on your fiddle, play some ragtime
- At the supper table Sadie thought
Yiddle must have flew the coop
She looked all around, but could not find him
‘Till she heard him drinking soup
Sadie waited till they served the fish
Then she jumped upon the floor
Put a quarter right on Yiddle’s dish
And yelled to him once more
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: