THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON
As recorded by Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra, 1932.

Hip hooray! Hip hooray!

The sun has got his hat on. Hip-hip-hip-hooray!
The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out today.

The sun has got his hat on. Hip-hip-hip-hooray!
The the sun has got his hat on and he's coming out today.

Now we'll all be happy. Hip-hip-hip-hooray!
The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out today.

He's been tanning n****rs out in Timbuktu.*
Now he's coming back to do the same to you.

Oh, jump into your sun bath. Hip-hip-hip-hooray!
The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out today.

Never saw the grass look greener; never saw the sky serener.
What a lot of fun for ev'ryone, sitting in the sun all day!

All the little boys excited. All the little girls delighted.
What a lot of fun for ev'ryone, sitting in the sun all day!

The sun has got his hat on. Hip-hip-hip-hooray!
The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out today.

All the little birds are singing; Canterbury bells are ringing.
Pussy on the tiles is wreathed in smiles, sleeping in the sun all day.

Hip-hip-hooray!


* The same line was used by Ambrose and his Orchestra, and by Syd Lipton and his Grosvenor House Orchestra, in 1932.

In 1971, "Nemo" (Jonathan King) substituted "Negroes."

A version by Justin Fletcher has:

"He's been beaming at me, smiling at me too."

A version by David Kernan has:

"He's been roasting peanuts out in Timbuktu."

(By the way—I looked it up—Mali does indeed export peanuts and peanut oil.)

The Ambrose version also contains this verse:

All the little birds are singin'. All the little gnats are stingin'.
All the little bees in twos and threes, buzzin' in the sun all day.