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Resurrection #2 Jitterbug Bite (Lucille Ball)

"Resurrection Jukebox" 

Lucille Ball (1911-1989) is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Jamestown, New York, where her parents and grandparents are buried. Her brother's remains were also interred there in 2007. My Swedish family is also from Jamestown and my grandparents and many members of my family are buried in Lake View.

Lucy may have been the Queen of B's but she was more than a comedienne; she could also dance and sing (this is her real voice, not dubbed):



(From the 1940 movie Dance, Girl, Dance)

I am just a sweet young thing of 22
Or so.
I never sink to smoke or drink
My life is one long...
"No."

I finish at Ms. Sniffing's school
A model debutante
I know each fork and spoon and rule
I don't say "can't," but "cahn't"

My etiquette is "ooh, mais oui"
I pour a proper pot of tea
And even when I need a nip
I never, never, never slip

Well, almost never

Oh, cut it out fellas!

Note: the above is an introduction the following is danced and sung:

Try to be a lady
Morning, noon and night
But when I hear music,
Get the Jitterbug Bite.

Over tea and crumpets
Gee, but I'm polite
But when I hear trumpets

Get the Jitterbug Bite.

I'm quite the quiet type
Poised in every move
But, boy, do I get noisy
When the boys get in the groove

Yeah!

How can I be highbrow?
What an awful plight
Gotta say goodbye now
You'll pardon me, I gotta blow
I gotta a slight twitch in my toe
My feet are just itching to go

Got the Jitterbug Bite
Ouch!
Got the Jitterbug Bite, yeah, yeah!

Got a Jitterbug Bite!


Try to be a lady
Morning, noon and bite.

Over tea and crumpets
Gee, but I'm polite
But when I hear trumpets
boy, do I get noisy
What an awful plight

         You'll pardon me,
gotta          twitch
         in my toe
                   My feet are just          itching           to go

Ouch! yeah!

Got a Jitterbug Bite!