got a little rhythm a rhythm a rhythm that pit a pats through my brain so darn persistent the day isn t distant when it ll drive me insane comes in the morning without any warning and hangs around me all day i ll have to sneak up to it someday and speak up to it i hope it listens when i say fascinating rhythm you ve got me on the go fascinating rhythm i m all a quiver when a mess you re making the neighbours want to know why i m always shaking just like a flivver each morning i get up with the sun start a hopping never stopping to find at night no work has been done i know that once it didn t matter but now you re doing wrong when you start to patter i m so unhappy won t you take a day off decide to run along somewhere far away off and make it snappy oh how i long to be the man i used to be fascinating rhythm oh won t you stop picking on me 