Jitter Bug — текст песни (Cab Calloway)

If you`d like to be a jitter bug,
First thing you must do is get a jug,
Put whiskey, wine and gin within,
And shake it all up and then begin.
Grab a cup and start to toss,
You are drinking jitter sauce!
Don`t you worry, you just mug,
And then you`ll be a jitter bug!

Hear this fat boy blowing his horn;
He`s been a bug since the day he was born,
His favorite jitter sauce is rye,
I swear, he`ll drink it `til the day he die!
Toot your whistle and ring your bell,
Oh, butchie-wutchie, time will tell,
Don`t you worry, you just mug,
You`ll always be a jitter bug!

These four boys playing saxophone,
Order jitter sauce by phone,
Central, give me Harlem 4-9-4,
I think these bugs could drink some more,
They drink sauce from morn to night
And never stop until they`re tight,
Don`t you worry, they just mug,
They`re poor little jitter bugs!

Now, here`s old Father, a wicked old man,
Drinks more sauce than the other bugs can,
He drinks jitter sauce every morn,
That`s why jitter sauce was born,
See him shake with his trombone,
He just can`t leave that sauce alone,
Get along, Father, you just mug,
You`ll always be a jitter bug!

There`s Rip Van with his eyes a-twinkle,
We named him after Rip Van Winkle,
Like Rip, he`d sleep for twenty years
If he could get his fill of beer,
Rip drinks his sauce, gets on the stand,
Soon he forgets that he`s in the band,
Don`t awaken him, just let him mug;
He`ll always be a jitter bug.