AT THE CODFISH BALL
From the film "Captain January" (1936)
(Lew Pollack / Sidney D. Mitchell)

Shirley Temple & Buddy Ebsen (Film Soundtrack) - 1936


TEMPLE:
Next Friday night your all invited
To dance from eight to five
All the fishes still alive
Are having a ball

Its some affair, they'll all be there
From the herring to the whale
They'll turn out to shake a scale
In Neptune's Hall

Come along and follow me
To the bottom of the sea
We'll join in the Jamboree
At the Codfish Ball

Lobsters dancing in a row
Shuffle off to Buffalo
Jelly fish sway to and fro
At the Codfish Ball

Finnan haddie leads the eel
Through an Irish reel
The catfish is a dancing man
But he can't can-can like the sardine can

Tunas trucking left and right
Minnows mooching, what a night
There won't be a hook in site
At the Codfish Ball

TEMPLE & EBSEN:
Come along and follow me
To the bottom of the sea
We'll join in the Jamboree
At the Codfish Ball

Lobsters dancing in a row
Shuffle off to Buffalo
Jelly fish sway to and fro
At the Codfish Ball

Finnan haddie leads the eel
Through an Irish reel
The catfish is a dancing man
But he can't can-can like the sardine can

Tunas trucking left and right
Minnows mooching, what a night
There won't be a hook in site
At the Codfish ball

(Music & Dance Interlude)

TEMPLE:
Come along and follow me
To the bottom of the sea
We'll join in the Jamboree
At the Codfish Ball


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2005)