(from "Shall We Dance," as heard on "Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers at RKO")
(Vocalizations to sound like ship's engine)
Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom,
World is in a mess.
Politics and taxes and people grinding axes,
There's no happiness.
Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom,
Rhythm be your ale.
Future doesn't upset me,
If I can only get me
Someone to slap that ba**.
Happiness and not a little,
When I'm listening to that big ba** fiddle.
Slap that ba**, slap it til it's dizzy.
Slap that ba**, keep the rhythm busy.
Zoom, zoom, zoom, misery, You've got to go!
(Echo: Misery, you've got to go!)
Slap that ba**, use it like a tonic.
Slap that ba**, keep your philharmonic.
Zoom, zoom, zoom, happiness ----------
These? would be better off
If they zoomed-zoomed now and then
Today, you can see that
The happiest men all got rhythm.
In that case, if you want to -------
Slap that ba**, slap away your troubles.
Zoom, zoom, zoom, slap that ba**!
(I've got to, got to, got to,
I've got to, got to, got to.)
(More “engine” sounds)