Toot, Toot Tootsie just makes it under the wire as a song in the public domain. It's a pretty well known one, but most performers stick with the chorus. I've included the first verse. The original sheet music has the full title: Toot, Toot Toosie (Goo' Bye!): A Cute Fox-Trot Song.

This is the latest video in my public domain video project. "Toot, Toot Tootsie" by Gus Kahn, Erie Erdman and Dan Russo was published in 1922. Any later and it wouldn't be in the public domain! The original publication has the highly apropos subtitle, "A Cute Fox-Trot Song."

The song is quite well known, but most performers have sung only the chorus. I've included the first verse, which puts the chorus in the third person rather than in the first person. Instead of the singer telling a girlfriend good-bye in a ridiculously happy way, it becomes a story about a silly man saying goodbye at the train station that the singer tells to friends. Hope you enjoy it!

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Rebecca Rice