IRVING BERLIN lyrics - Climbing Up The Scales

[1st verse:]

Singing is a part of ev'ry creature

Ev'rybody likes to hum a tune

Let me be your little singing teacher

I've prepared your lesson

You can learn it soon



[Refrain:]

Strike a key and begin with do

Do re mi and the rest you know

One, two, three, come along, let's go

Climbing up the scales



Oh, what fun going up and when

That's all done you go down and then

Ev'ryone should begin again

Climbing up the scales



A tenor or a soprano

Can try it on a piano



Strike a key and begin with do

Do re mi and the rest you know

One, two, three, come along, let's go

Climbing up the scales



[2nd verse:]

In this very ordinary chorus

There's an old effect that never fails

So we'll ask you to do something for us

While we sing the chorus

You go up the scales