from "Forty Second Street"
Music by Harry Warren
Words by Al. Dubin
1932
It cannot ever, of course, be agreeable to find yourself torn into a thousand pieces with a fourteen-stone Othello doing a 'Shuffle Off To Buffalo' on the scattered fragments, but if you are full at the time of Anatole's Timbale de ris de veau Toulousaine, the discomfort unquestionnably become modified.
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Chapter 8
It was with something of the jauntiness of a couple of old-style vaudeville song–and–dance men doing a Shuffle Off to Buffalo to the O.P. exit, that a few moments later they took their departure, leaving Terry to muse alone on this surprising crisis in her affairs.
French Leave. Chapter 6.IV
He's engaged to be married to Stiffy Byng, and his long years of football should prove an excellent preparation for setting up house with her. The way I look at it is that when a fellow has had pluguglies in cleated boots doing a Shuffle–Off–To–Buffalo on his face Saturday after Saturday since he was a slip of a boy, he must get to fear nothing, not even marriage with a girl like Stiffy.
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. Chapter 3
Even in repose he seemed on the verge of one of those soft–shoe Shuffle–off–to–Buffalo forms of self–expression which used to be so popular in American vaudeville.
Bachelor Anonymous. Chapter 10