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Thread #48565   Message #2109751
Posted By: Jim Dixon
23-Jul-07 - 11:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Funny Song Suggestions Required
Subject: Lyr Add: EV'RYTHING IS HOTSY TOTSY NOW
Artful Codger: Your link doesn't work, but I think this must have been the file you used (or another copy of it).

Transcribed from the sound recording at The Red Hot Jazz Archive

As you can see, I had some difficulty, too, but I think I can clear up part of your confustion.

EV'RYTHING IS HOTSY TOTSY NOW
Jimmy McHugh, Irving Mills* (The Hotsy-Totsy Boys)
New York: Jack Mills, Inc., 1925.

Take a look at me. I'm busy as a bee.
I got a lot to do, do, do.
I'm gonna build a home, a cozy little home,
Just room enough for two, two, two.
There's ... add a limb on the family tree.
I've found a girl as sweet as she could be.
So ev'rything is jake. What a lucky break!
I'm happy as can be.

'Cause I've got myself a brand new hotsy.
I'm her totsy. She's my hotsy.
Ev'rything is hotsy-totsy now.

What I did was pop the question.
She said, "What a great suggestion!"
Ev'rything is hotsy-totsy now.

No more cryin'. No more sighin'.
I'm through with the blues.
Does she love me, turtledove me?
I'll tell the world she do, do, do.

I've got myself a brand new hotsy.
I'm her totsy and she's my hotsy.
Ev'rything is hotsy-totsy now.

I said, I've got myself a brand new totsy.
I'm her hotsy. She's my totsy.
Ev'rything is hotsy-totsy now.

I just bought the ring for Totsy's finger,
Just the thing, a real humdinger,
And ev'rything is hotsy-totsy now.

So long, sadness. Hello, gladness.
...
Ev'ry little thing is peaches
Down in Georgia now.

'Cause I've got myself a brand new totsy.
I'm her hotsy. She's my totsy,
And ev'rything is hotsy-totsy now.

I said, I've got myself a brand new hotsy.
I'm her totsy. She's my hotsy,
Ev'rything is hotsy-totsy now.

And when we spoon, she don't say stopsy,
Don't call momsy or her popsy.
Ev'rything is hotsy-totsy now.

I've loved others, but oh, brothers!
Their lovin' was mild.
And I'm sure daffy 'bout my sweet taffy.
She drives me wild.

At ten o'clock, I say adieu,
But I'm still there at half-past two,
So ev'rything is hotsy-totsy now.


[*Credit as given by Indiana University Sheet Music Collections. Some sources also credit Dorothy Fields.

[Red Hot Jazz also has recordings by The California Ramblers, The Coon Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra, The Original Indiana Five, Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orchestra, and Eddie Frazier and his Plantation Orchestra, but none of them use the complete lyrics as shown above.]