Fascinating Rhythm
Composer(s): George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin
Performer(s): Susannah McCorkle;
and various other artists



Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm 
That pit-a-pats through my brain
So darn persistent
The day isn't distant 
When it'll drive me insane
Comes in the morning 
Without any warning
And hangs around me all day
I'll have to sneak up to it 
Someday, and speak up to it 
I hope it listens when I say

Refrain: 
Fascinating Rhythm
You've got me on the go! 
Fascinating Rhythm 
I'm all a-quiver
When a mess you're making! 
The neighbours want to know 
Why I'm 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 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 man I used to be! 
Fascinating rhythm
Oh won't you stop picking on me?