I Beeped When I Should Have Bopped - Louis Prima

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Slow down, honey.

Be cool

It looks like you’ll never learn how to bop

You’re nothing but a square!

All you do is beep-beep-beep

You’re a bring-down and I’m cutting out.

Goodbye!

There she goes!

My life was all sunshine and roses

With the gal, I was right at the top

Well, we get along swell till she suddenly fell for

The music that’s known as bop

Oh, I tried to be so hep for her sake

Till one day I made my fatal mistake

I beeped when I should have bopped

Lapped when I should have lopped

I was walking on air till she called me a square

'Cause I beeped when I should have bopped

I dipped when I should have flipped

I tripped when I should have hipped

My romancing was fine till I got out of line

'Cause I beeped when I should have bopped

Oh-ya-coo, coo-ya-oo, oo-ba-doo, shmoo-ba-poo

It all sounds the same to me

Bla-de-da, da-de-bla, diddly-da, schmiddly-pa

Is it something that’s served with tea?

Hiccups!

I beeped when I should have bopped

I heaped when I should have hopped

I was giving my all to my bum of the ball

And now I’m blowing my top

'Cause I beeped when I should have bopped

Oh-ya-coo, coo-ya-oo, oo-ba-doo, schmoo-ba-poo

It all sounds the same to me

Bla-de-da, da-de-bla, diddly-da, schmiddly-pa

Is it something that’s served with tea?

I beeped when I should have bopped

I heaped when I should have hopped

I was giving my all to the bum of the ball

And now I’m blowing my top

'Cause I beeped

Slow down man!

'Cause I leaped

Be cool Daddio!

'Cause I beeped

That’s the end!

When I should have bopped