The Jitterbug

Written by：Harold Arlen/Harburg

Did you just hear what I just heard

That noise didn't come from an ordinary bird

It may be just a cricket or a critter in the tree

It's giving me the jitters in the joints around my knees

I think I see a shadow and it's fuzzy and it's furry

I havn't got a brain but I think I ought to worry

I havn't got a heart but I got a palpatation

As monarch of the forest I don't like the situation

Are you gonna stand around and let them fill us full of

Horror to lion

I'd like to roar them down but I think I lost my roarer

It's a whosis

It's a whosis

It's a whatsits

It's a whatsits

Who's that

Who's there

Who's there

Who's there

Who's that hiding in the tree tops

It's that rascal

The jitterbug

Should you catch him

Buzzing 'round you

Keep away from

The jitterbug

Oh the bees in the breeze and the bats in the trees

Have a terrible horrible buzz

But the bees in the breeze and the bats in the trees

Couldn't do what the jitter bug does

So be careful of that rascal

Keep away from

The jitterbug

The jitterbug

Oh the jitter

Oh the bug

Oh the jitterbug

In the twitter

In the throes

Oh the critter's got me dancing

On a thousand toes

Thar she blows

Hi

Who's the hiding

In the tree tops

It's that rascal the jitterbug

Should you yatch

Buzzing round you

Keep away from the jitterbug

Oh the bees in the breeze and the bats in the trees

Have a terrible horrible buzz

But the bees in the breeze and the bats in the trees

Couldn't do what the jitter bug

So be so careful of that rascal

Keep away from

The jitterbug

The jitterbug

The jitterbug