Below The Mason-Dixon Line 1910

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 11 Jun 2008
2008

Slip on your Sunday gotomeetin' gown,
big yaller bonnet
and your shoes of brown,
Tell all the people
we're a goin' to town,
to 'tend a ragtime jubilee,
we want to dance,
so loosen up your feet,
spread out your appetite,
prepare to eat,
we're gwine to paralyze the coon elite
when they gaze on you and me.

There ain't a goin' to be a bit of fancy dancin'
and there ain't a goin' to be no highclass prancin'
and there ain't a goin' to be no twostep
reel or waltz,
that all the folks up north call fine.
But the alcazaza and the razmataza,
we will dance from the garret to the old piazza
as it ought to be at any jubilee
below the MasonDixon Line.

There ain't a goin' to be a bit of fancy dancin'
and there ain't a goin' to be no highclass prancin'
and there ain't a goin' to be no twostep
reel or waltz,
that all the folks up north call fine.
But the alcazaza and the razmataza,
we will dance from the garret to the old piazza
as it ought to be at any jubilee
below the MasonDixon Line.

I hear the music of a Dixie Band,
Just like an echo
out of DixieLand,
I feel so nervous
I can hardly stand,
I want to dance till I expire.
I want to do the Mississippi glide,
Car'lina shuffle and the chicken stride.
I'll keep you swingin' Honey by my side,
until your shoes done catch on fire.

There ain't a goin' to be a bit of fancy dancin'
and there ain't a goin' to be no highclass prancin'
and there ain't a goin' to be no twostep
reel or waltz,
that all the folks up north call fine.
But the alcazaza and the razmataza,
we will dance from the garret to the old piazza
as it ought to be at any jubilee
below the MasonDixon Line.

There ain't a goin' to be a bit of fancy dancin'
and there ain't a goin' to be no highclass prancin'
and there ain't a goin' to be no twostep
reel or waltz,
that all the folks up north call fine.
But the alcazaza and the razmataza,
we will dance from the garret to the old piazza
as it ought to be at any jubilee
below the MasonDixon Line.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Below The Mason-Dixon Line 1910
Words & Music by Dave Reed
© 1910 by Maurice Shapiro - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne
on Wednesday 11 June 2008 at 11.15
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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