WHAT IS IT?
(Harry Barris / Harry Tobias)


Smith Ballew & His Piping Rock Orch. - 1931
Lloyd Keating & His Music (vocal: Robert Wood)** - 1931
Jacques Renard & His Orch. (vocal: Paul Small) - 1931
The Boswell Sisters - 1931
The High Hatters - 1931

** Lloyd Keating and Robert Wood were pseudonyms 
for Ben Selvin and Paul Small.





You've got me hypnotised
You've got me mesmerized
Why do you fascinate me so

Just like a magnet, dear
You seem to draw me near
Tell me, honey, I'd like to know

What is it, what is it
That makes me want you
The way that I do
What is it?

Please tell me, what is it
That gives me a thrill
Like nothing else will
What is it?

You're not as good lookin'
As some of the rest
But you've got that something
That I like the best

What is it, what is it
I'm dying to know
Why I love you so
What is it?






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2015)