An Old Fashioned Tune Always Is New - 1939 - 'Second Fiddle'

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 20 Feb 2002

Nothing's as old as last year's rhythm,
nothing's forgotten so soon.
Nothing's as dated
as last year's syncopated tune.
Ragtime is dead and so is jazz,
and swing will leave us cold.
There's only one kind of music
that never grows old.

An old fashioned tune always is new.
It never seems to go out of style.
For just when you start thinking it's through,
it comes down from the shelf with a smile.
A simple melody will always linger,
I mean the kind you pick out with one finger.
If you have some thoughts
rhyming with June,
Express them in an old fashioned tune.

An old fashioned tune always is new.
It never seems to go out of style.
For just when you start thinking it's through,
it comes down from the shelf with a smile.
A simple melody will always linger,
I mean the kind you pick out with one finger.
If you have some thoughts
rhyming with June,
Express them in an old fashioned tune.

Soft karaoke
Words
treble clef 1
treble clef 2
lyric line
bass
Lyric Line
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An Old Fashioned Tune Always Is New 1939
Music and words by Irving Berlin
copyright MCMXXXIX by Irving Berlin Inc., N.Y.C.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Wednesday 20 February 2002 at 08.00
in association with Doug Grierson
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From the 20th Century Fox Film Production
'Second Fiddle'
with Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power
Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver
Mary Healy, Lyle Talbot, and Alan Dinehart
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