Fascinating Rhythm

By Fred Astaire (1974)
On album Fred Astaire's Finest Hour (2003), The Astaire Story (2017), Puttin' On The Ritz (1991)

Fred Astaire's Finest Hour
Fascinating rhythm
You got me on the go
Fascinating rhythm, I'm all a-quiver

What 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?

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, fascinating rhythm, fascinating rhythm
Stop picking on me?

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