Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm
That pit-a-pats through my brain;
So darn persistent,
The day isnt distant
When itll drive me insane.
Comes in the morning
Without any warning,
And hangs around me all day.
Ill have to sneak up to it
Someday, and speak up to it.
I hope it listens when I say:
Refrain:
Fascinating rhythm,
Youve got me on the go!
Fascinating rhythm,
Im all a-quiver.
When a mess youre making!
The neighbours want to know
Why Im always shaking
Just like a flivver.
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 didnt matter -
But now youre doing wrong;
When you start to patter
Im so unhappy.
Wont you take a day off?
Decide to run along
Somewhere far away off -
And make it snappy!
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be!
Fascinating rhythm,
On wont you stop picking on me?