SLOW POKE (Pee Wee King / Redd Stewart / Chilton Price)
Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys - 1951 Ralph Flanagan & His Orch. (vocals: The Singing Winds) - 1951 Helen O'Connell - 1951 Arthur Godfrey - 1951 Roberta Lee - 1951 The Ray Conniff Singers - 1964
YOU KEEP ME WAITIN’ TILL IT’S GETTIN’ AGGRAVATIN’, YOU’RE A SLOW POKE, I WAIT N’ WORRY BUT YOU NEVER SEEM TO HURRY, YOU’RE A SLOW POKE,
TIME MEANS NOTHIN’ TO YOU, I WAIT AND THEN, LATE AGAIN, EIGHT O’CLOCK, NINE O’CLOCK,
QUARTER TO TEN,
WHY SHOULD I LINGER EV’RY TIME YOU SNAP YOUR FINGER, LITTLE SLOW POKE, WHY CAN’T YOU HASTEN WHEN YOU SEE THE TIME’S A-WASTIN’, YOU’RE A SLOW POKE, DEAR,
WHY SHOULD I KEEP TRYIN’ TO CHANGE YOU, IT’S NOT THE THING TO DO, I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO LEARN TO BE A SLOW POKE TOO!
YOU KEEP ME WAITIN’ TILL IT’S GETTIN’ AGGRAVATIN’, YOU’RE A SLOW POKE, I WAIT N’ WORRY BUT YOU NEVER SEEM TO HURRY, YOU’RE A SLOW POKE,