Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm
  That pit-a-pats through my brain;
  So darn persistent,
  The day isn't distant
  When it'll drive me insane.
  Comes in the morning
  Without any warning,
  And hangs around me all day.
  I'll have to sneak up to it
  Someday, and speak up to it.
  I hope it listens when I say:
  
  Refrain:
  Fascinating Rhythm,
  You've got me on the go!
  Fascinating Rhythm,
  I'm all a-quiver.
  
  When a mess you're making!
  The neighbours want to know
  Why I'm always shaking
  Just like a flivver.
  
  Each morning I get up with the sun -
  Start a-hopping,
  Never stopping -
  To find at night no work has been done.
  
  I know that
  Once it didn't matter -
  But now you're doing wrong;
  When you start to patter
  I'm so unhappy.
  
  Won't you take a day off?
  Decide to run along
  Somewhere far away off -
  And make it snappy!
  
  Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be!
  Fascinating rhythm,
  On won't you stop picking on me?