Around The Town 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 4 May 2012
2012

Good Gracious!
What's the modern dance acoming to now?
It's got us going somehow,
and yet we all allow
it's getting mighty free and easy
My goodness!
On the jazzy music put all the blame,
It bears a scandalous name
but still we like it all the same,
Oh what a shame!

Around the town
around the town
On all the dance floors ev'rywhere
you'll see it done by ev'ry pair
while noisy music fills the air.
A funny step
with lots of pep
that makes the proper people stare
and yet they go right to it
and do it
while piano and the drum
go tiddletetum tetum!
Around the town
around the town
In ev'ry ballroom glad and gay
and ev'ry dancehall where you pay
to wile the jazzy hours away
the doggone thing
has such a swing
that ev'rybody takes a chance
at this goasyoupleasy
and free and easy dance.

Around the town
around the town
On all the dance floors ev'rywhere
you'll see it done by ev'ry pair
while noisy music fills the air.
A funny step
with lots of pep
that makes the proper people stare
and yet they go right to it
and do it
while piano and the drum
go tiddletetum tetum!
Around the town
around the town
In ev'ry ballroom glad and gay
and ev'ry dancehall where you pay
to wile the jazzy hours away
the doggone thing
has such a swing
that ev'rybody takes a chance
at this goasyoupleasy
and free and easy dance.

Oh Lawsy!
There's a devil in the best of us all,
We always answer the call,
and then proceed to fall
for anything that's kind o' naughty
By Jingo!
It's the latest way of getting a bun
since prohibition's begun
it's jazz that furnishes the fun
for ev'ryone.

Around the town
around the town
On all the dance floors ev'rywhere
you'll see it done by ev'ry pair
while noisy music fills the air.
A funny step
with lots of pep
that makes the proper people stare
and yet they go right to it
and do it
while piano and the drum
go tiddletetum tetum!
Around the town
around the town
In ev'ry ballroom glad and gay
and ev'ry dancehall where you pay
to wile the jazzy hours away
the doggone thing
has such a swing
that ev'rybody takes a chance
at this goasyoupleasy
and free and easy dance.

Around the town
around the town
On all the dance floors ev'rywhere
you'll see it done by ev'ry pair
while noisy music fills the air.
A funny step
with lots of pep
that makes the proper people stare
and yet they go right to it
and do it
while piano and the drum
go tiddletetum tetum!
Around the town
around the town
In ev'ry ballroom glad and gay
and ev'ry dancehall where you pay
to wile the jazzy hours away
the doggone thing
has such a swing
that ev'rybody takes a chance
at this goasyoupleasy
and free and easy dance.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Around The Town 1920
from "Silks and Satins"
Music by Leon Rosebrook
Lyrics by Louis Weslyn
© MCMXX by Jerome H.Remick & Co. New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 4 May 2012 at 13.09
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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