ZONKY
From Connie's Revue "Load of Coal"
Words by Andy Razaf; music by Thomas "Fats" Waller. ©1929.
As recorded Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings, with Eva Taylor, vocalist, 1929.

Any time you introduce the zonky,
Start a-cuttin' loose; get honky-tonky.
It's a good excuse to let your feelings run wild.

Shake your feet a-plenty; don't be haughty.
Work 'em double twenty; that means forty.
Make a noisy entry; act just like a big child.

Got such, well, you know what I want to say.
Hot much, hm! That tempo sure is tight that way.

I will bet a dime against a doughnut
Other dances they may come and go, but
When you learn the zonky, you will want it to stay.


Other early recordings were made by:
Bill Brown and His Brownies, 1929.
Shreveport Sizzlers, 1929.
McKinney's Cotton Pickers, 1930.
Fats Waller, 1935.
Six Men and a Girl, 1940.
Nat Jaffe, 1944.