Good-Bye Blues 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 24 Dec 2008
2008

Goodbye for ever,
Ragtime blues once ruled the world,
Goodbye for ever,
to those tunes
we whirled and twirled
the jazzy song has had its day,
the critics say it's now passé
it's been surpassed
it's been outclassed
it's fading fast,
at last.

Goodbye Blues
(you made us very merry)
Goodbye Blues
(here's your obituary)
Tosti's Goodbye
is now appropriate
for you are out of date
all your bars
(and we could not resist them)
sure were jars
(to our old nervous system)
No more we'll hear those jazzy blues
we loved so well,
they're thru
goodbye, goodbye

Goodbye for ever
to those blue jazz melodies
Goodbye for ever
to those discord harmonies
they wrote the blue songs
by the stack
we'll get the blues
if they come back,
those songs were trash
but they made cash
then came the crash,
some smash.

For then the waltz
that has no faults
or raggy halts
made us enthuse.
No more you'll hear
those blues so queer
Oh Dear;
It's Goodbye
Goodbye. poor old blues.

Goodbye for ever
rag and blues
have met their doom
Goodbye for ever
now we'll place them in a tomb,
and tho' they made us
dance and laugh,
we'll have to write their epitaph
you're goin' away
you're goin' to stay
Goodbye Blues
Goodbye....

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Good-Bye Blues 1920
Music by Carlton L.Colby
Lyrics by Ww.A.Downs
© MCMXX by Harold Rossiter Music Co. - Chicago
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 24 December 2008 at 15.04
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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a far cry from Tosti's original song.... :-)
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