HOOPS
From the Broadway Revue "The Band Wagon" (1931)
(Arthur Schwartz / Howard Dietz)

Fred & Adele Astaire with Leo Reisman & His Orch. - 1931
Mary Martin - 1950
Robert Clary - 1955



FRED:
She have name they call Marie
She is little sister to me

ADELE:
He have name they call Louie
He is great big brother to me

FRED:
We live on the Rue Marceau
Vingt et un le numero

ADELE:
We play in zee Park Marceau
Ev'ryday it's there we go

FRED:
We do things Mama don't know
She too busy with her beau

ADELE:
And ev'ryday we hop and skip
And fight and jump and fall down

BOTH:
We don't care how bad we are
We only get a ????? down

After school how ??? ??? ?????
And we do not give a good big damn

We play 'oops et ra-ra-ra
Et rat-tat-tan
We bump into zee big fat man
We play 'oops in the park all day

Mama, she scold, she say, "Eh, eh, eh!"
You mustn't knock over the gentleman with the whip 

And we play 'oops
And we write words upon big fats
For only forty malipense
All day long we play with the 'oops 


(Part Transcription by Mel Priddle - March 2006)