IRVING BERLIN lyrics - The Syncopated Walk

[1st verse:]

Strange, but there's a change

In how the people walk these days

Yes! you must confess

That ever since the dancing craze

Ev'rybody has a syncopated walk

Where it's in the air

You'll find them swaying as they go

Smile but all the while

You must admit that it is so

For they do, they do

If you don't think it's true



[Refrain:]

Look at 'em doin' it! Look at 'em doin' it!

That syncopated walk

Look at 'em doin' it! Look at 'em doin' it!

I know who introduced it



Wait'll he reaches you

Wait'll he teaches you

That syncopated walk

You'll be doing it too



Because it's done by ev'ryone

You'll find it's international

That irrational step



It's full of "Pep", full of "Pep"

And in the morning when they rise

For their morning exercise

They take a syncopated walk



[2nd verse:]

Say what e'er you may

It's in the air without a doubt

You will do it too

Before you know what you're about

You'll be walking with a syncopated walk

Don't you say you won't

Because you don't know what you say

Friend, you can depend

That it will strike you some fine day

E'er you know you'll go

If you don't think it's so