Fascinating Rhythm

1924 – George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin

Fascinating rhythm, you’ve got me on the go

Fascinating rhythm, I’m all a-quiver

What a mess you’re making, the neighbors want to know

Why I’m always shaking, just like a fliver

Each morning I get up with the sun

Start a-hopping, never stopping

To find at night no work has been done

I know that once it didn’t matter, but now you’re doing wrong

When you start to patter, I’m so unhappy

Won’t you take a day off, decide to run along

Somewhere far away off, and make it snappy

Oh, how I long to be the gal I used to be

Fascinating rhythm, oh, won’t you stop picking on me?

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