Pent Up in a Penthouse

Transcribed from vocals by Fats Waller, recorded August 21, 1938;
From Fats Waller, 1938, Chronological Classics 913.

All pent up in a penthouse,
The table is ready for two,
Our date was for seven,
It's now past eleven,
Oh, baby, what's happened to you?

All pent up in a penthouse,
Cocktails all ready to shake,
The dinner's untasted,
The evening's been wasted,
Is this your idea of a break, huh?

I keep phonin' your apartment,
Keep on gettin' no reply;
How long must I wait
While you celebrate
With some other lucky guy?

All pent up in a penthouse,
By midnight if you don't arrive,
I'll rush to the window
And I'll throw the table,
The dinner, the cocktails, the orchids, and maybe myself,
Right down to the sidewalk and turn left,
On Riverside Drive.

Send me on out there!
Yes, yes!
Send me on out there!
Oh, get it straight, get it straight,
Oh, my!
That's your phone ringing, baby,
That's a light tinkle.
Yes, yes!

[Scatting]

On Riverside Drive, yeah!

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Published 10/1/00.

Fats Waller, excellent autobiograhy by son Maurice Waller.

You can find transcriptions of what Fats Waller actually played in Thomas "Fats" Waller: The Great Solos, 1929-1941, transcribed by Paul Posnak.
 

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