Cab Calloway — The Scat Song lyrics

Lyrics

When your sweetie tells you, everything’ll be okay,
Just skeep-beep de bop-bop beep bop bo-dope skeetle-at-de-op-de-day!
If you feel like shoutin', advertise it just this way:
And skeep-beep de bop-bop beep bop bo-dope skeetle-at-de-op-de-day!
Don’t give a hang what words you use at any time,
Sing this silly language, without any reason or rhyme.
When you face the preacher, there’s only one thing to say:
Just skeep-beep de bop-bop beep bop bo-dope skeetle-at-de-op-day!
Another version
Spoken: Say, what you doin', boy? Oh, man, I’m just scatting and going right on to town, Satchmo!
When your sweetie tells you, everything’ll be okay,
Just:
If you feel like shoutin', advertise it just this way:
And
Don’t give a hang what words you use at any time,
Sing this silly language, without any reason or rhyme.
When you face the preacher, there’s only one thing to say:
Just