| Lyrics: | 1st verse:]
Millionaires, so the papers tell
Learned a dance that we all know
well
Papers say that an extra swell affair
Was given by a millionaire
The rich four
hundred, one and all, had gathered there
Strange to say some reporter-men
Happened there
with a pad and pen
They wrote down what they saw and when the news
Was printed in the
papers people were reading everywhere
[chorus:]
Doing that Society Bear
Hetty
Green and Rockefeller
Threw their shoulders up in the air
Rocking like a big
propeller
Someone cried, "Cuddle up to your Vanderbilt
Wrap me up in a beautiful di'mond
quilt"
Mister Schwab was on the job
In a high-toned manner, playing the piano
Morgan
cried, "I don't give a care
Let me spend another dollar"
Throwing up his hands in the
air
Mister Gould began to holler
"Stocks are going up, going up, going up
Stocks are
going up, going up, going up"
So, come on, let's kill that Society Bear
It's a bear, it's
a bear
[2nd verse:]
Papers say, ev'rybody there
Laughed out loud when an
heiress fair
Kissed John D. where he has no hair at all
Then cunningly began to
call
His head her lovin' billiard ball, around the hall
Carnegie did the Turkey
Trot
For an hour with a chicken that
Egged him on 'til he 'most forgot to care
A snap
about his libr'ry, doing that rich Society Bear |
