Ah, that's the tempo I like.
Poco Poco, Allegretto.
Now I just got back from
Washington today.
An d really, folks, I've got a lot to say.
While I was there,
I met the adjutant general.
And what he told me put me in a daze.
Why, for days and days and days and
days and days and and days.
For a week
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
I'm working here, too
The adjunct in general said Jimmy you've been in
vited to entertain at the White House
He said it'll be a gathering
of the intelligentsia
the hoi polloi the 400 the 500
the 600 the 700 the 800
How do you like that?
Everywhere you go critics
Then he said Jimmy what you do
when you're called upon to entertain.
I I said, Mr. Adjutant General,
what'll I do?
I'll tell you.
Why, in the midst of festivities,
I'll get up, I'll get up,
and do my strut away in my cutaway.
It's just a hop away, a slide away,
and a scram away.
And then you skidder right down,
and you go to town with a twist away.
Now, when you strut away,
this way, it's a holiday.
You know, I was dancing a strut away
with a girl named Suzette
when she accidentally backed
into a hot radiator.
to Zit crepe suzette.
It's a dance that's going to
gain great renown.
A beautiful girl invited me up
to her apartment
to teach her this dance.
I wasn't in the apartment ten minutes,
when who walks in, her husband.
Kind of perturbed, he said,
what are you doing here?
I said, I'm putting on my white tie.
I'm putting on my top hat.
I'm puttin' on my top coat
to make my getaway
Doin' the strut away
Did you ever have the feelin'
that you wanted to do?
The strut away
The hop away
The scram away
And then you skidder right down
and you go to town
Doin' the strut away
The hop away
The scram away
Once more
You know folks I'm happy to tell you
that I just bought a brand new con
vertible coupe.
Eats gads what a car.
You push a button,
the top stays where it is,
but the bottom falls out.
So what did I do?
I did the crawl away,
not the strut away.
Did you ever have the feeling
that you wanted to do the strut away?
The hop away?
The scram away?
And then you skid right down
and you go to town
doing the strut away.
You'll hop away, you'll scram away,
once more