I BEEPED WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BOPPED
(Paul Brenner / Bernie Wayne)

Recorded by : Teresa Brewer; Louis Prima.


(M=male voice, F=female voice, Oth=other male singers)

(M)   Beep-beep-beep-beepy-beep-beep-bee-bee
(F)    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!
(M)    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?
(Oth)    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

(Oth) Oh-ya-coo, coo-ya-oo, oo-ba-doo, schmoo-ba-poo 
(M) It all sounds the same to me
(Oth) 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 
(F) Slow down man!
(M)  ‘Cause I leaped
(F) Be cool Daddio!
(M)  ‘Cause I beeped
(F) That’s the end!
(M) When I should have bopped