At the Codfish Ball (From "Captain January")

At the Codfish Ball - Shirley Temple

Lyricist：Sidney Mitchell

Composer：Lew Pollack

Next Friday night your all invited

To dance from eight to five

All the fishes still alive

Are having a ball

It's some affair they'll all be there

From the herring to the whale

They'll turn out to shake a scale

In neptune's hall

Come along and follow me

To the bottom of the sea

We'll join in the Jamboree

At the codfish ball

Lobsters dancing in a row

Shuffle off to buffalo

Jelly fish sway to and fro

At the codfish ball

Finnan haddie leads the eel

Through an Irish reel

The catfish is a dancing man

But he can't can can like the sardine can

Tunas trucking left and right

Minnows mooching what a night

There won't be a hook in site

At the codfish ball

Come along and follow me

To the bottom of the sea

We'll join in the Jamboree

At the codfish ball

Lobsters dancing in a row

Shuffle off to Buffalo

Jelly fish sway to and fro

At the codfish call

Finnan haddie leads the eel

Through an Irish reel

The catfish is a dancing man

But he can't can can like the sardine can

Tunas trucking left and right

Minnows mooching what a night

There won't be a hook in site

At the codfish ball