Dancing To The Sugar Tune 1918

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19 June 2009
2009

In an Alabamy cabaret
where the jazz musicians get no pay
you might ask me how
they make money now,
why there's only one way
there's a highbrown yaller leader man
he's a kind of music bus'ness man.
If you should by chance
ask him "Play A Dance"
then to you he would say.

Slip the boys another dime
if you want to have a time
ain't it kind a strange
just a little change
make the boys feel mighty fine
lots of jingle in your hand
puts the ginger in the band,
Get your Lady Pep,
do the money step
Dancing to the Sugar Tune.

Slip the boys another dime
if you want to have a time
ain't it kind a strange
just a little change
make the boys feel mighty fine
lots of jingle in your hand
puts the ginger in the band,
Get your Lady Pep,
do the money step
Dancing to the Sugar Tune.

Talk about the meanest kind of blues
puts a lot of pepper in your shoes,
oh that minor key
there's no finer key
not a dance you'll refuse,
there is no admission at the door
do not throw your money on the floor,
There's a sugar box
has no keys or locks
if you want an encore.

Slip the boys another dime
if you want to have a time
ain't it kind a strange
just a little change
make the boys feel mighty fine
lots of jingle in your hand
puts the ginger in the band,
Get your Lady Pep,
do the money step
Dancing to the Sugar Tune.

Slip the boys another dime
if you want to have a time
ain't it kind a strange
just a little change
make the boys feel mighty fine
lots of jingle in your hand
puts the ginger in the band,
Get your Lady Pep,
do the money step
Dancing to the Sugar Tune.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Dancing To The Sugar Tune 1918
by L.Wolfe Gilbert
© MCMXVIII by Gilbert & Friedland Inc. - N.Y.C.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 19 June 2009 at 23.22
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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