Irving Berlin,
That Society Bear
(1912)
“ 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 ”
