Converging interests / Jeepers creepers

My two main interests are in prosody and in the musical setting of texts.  Actually, these are the same interest, but stretching out with two diverging paths.  

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Jeeper creepers where'd you get those peepers / jeepers creepers where'd you get those eyes

If you listen to that song you will find beat one of the eight-measure phrase like this:

Jeepers 

creepers 

where'd you get those 

peepers 

Jeepers 

creepers 

where'd you get those 

eyes

But the one can be displaced by a half beat, coming on the AND of ONE.  That's what happens in the third and seven measures here. The singer might also phrase it so that the accent doesn't fall exactly on the one, in the second measure, for example.  

The poetic meter is trochaic: you can see that if you find the secondary stress on the word get.