All the Quakers are shoulder shakers : (down in Quaker town) / words by Bert Kalmar and Edgar Leslie music by Pete Wendling
MLA Citation
Wendling, Pete, 1888-1974. “All the Quakers are shoulder shakers : (down in Quaker town) / words by Bert Kalmar and Edgar Leslie music by Pete Wendling.” Digital Gallery. BGSU University Libraries, 23 May 2022, digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/collections/item/31326. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.
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Title | All the Quakers are shoulder shakers : (down in Quaker town) / words by Bert Kalmar and Edgar Leslie music by Pete Wendling |
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Subject | City and town life -- Songs and music |
Fads -- Songs and music | |
Humorous songs | |
Popular music -- 1911-1920 | |
Songs with piano | |
Description | For voice and piano |
Caption title | |
Cover design by Barbelle | |
Cover illustration of couples dancing with a Quaker looking on disapprovingly | |
Creator | Wendling, Pete, 1888-1974 |
Source | Sheet Music Collection; Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives; University Libraries; Bowling Green State University |
Publisher | New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. |
Date | 1919 |
Contributor | Kalmar, Bert, 1884-1947 |
Leslie, Edgar | |
Barbelle, 1888-1957, graphic artist | |
Rights | |
Format | Sheet music |
Published works | |
image/jpeg | |
Type | Image |
Text | |
Identifier | SMC 00653 |
1006 Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co | |
https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/collections/item/31326 | |
Alternative Title | First line of text: Oh! I just got back today from a town not far away |
First line of chorus: All the Quakers are shoulder shakers | |
References | http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b2292553~S9 |
VERSE 01: Oh! I just got back today,/From a town not far away,/I’ve been looking at the Quakers,/In their clothes of gray/And it struck me mighty strange,/’Cause there’s been an awful change/If you think those folks are slow,/There’s a lot that you don’t know. CHORUS 01: All the Quakers are shoulder shakers,/Down in Quaker town,/Things are upside down/The Jazz Bug bit ‘em,/How it hit ‘em/Ev’ry wiggle just makes you giggle,/At the meeting hall/Bands are playing,/Folks are swaying,/To the lovin’ “Strutters Ball”./Brother Halsey, with the palsy,/You remember him,/He’s the man who first began to teach them how to “shim,”/Oh! The home of William Penn,/Won’t be quite the same again,/’Cause all the Quakers are shoulder shakers,/Down in Quaker Town. VERSE 02: It’s a most peculiar sight,/And it doesn’t seem quite right,/To see all the Quakers dancing,/Way into the night/When the curfew starts to ring,/Ev’rybody starts to sing/And they grab their dancing shoes,/While they hum a Quaker blues. CHORUS 02: All the Quakers are shoulder shakers,/Down in Quaker town,/Things are upside down/The Jazz Bug bit ‘em,/How it hit ‘em/Ev’ry sister is quite a twister,/Of a wicked knee/Baby brother, Dad and Mother,/Do the “Memphis Shiveree.”/Brother Morgan at the organ,/Jazzes all the notes,/Gee it’s simply great to watch them sow their Quaker oats/You should see how Sister Birch,/Does a fox trot down to church,/’Cause all the Quakers are shoulder shakers,/Down in Quaker Town. | |
Original Format | 1 score (3 pages) 31 cm |