Hot Lips 1922

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 20 Feb 2008
2008

There's a boy that's in our band
and how he blows that horn,
finest since you're born,
when he starts you're gone,
they all call him 'Hot Lips' for
he blows real red hot notes,
and ev'rybody on the floor
just floats: that's what they say:

He's got hot lips when he plays jazz,
he draws out steps, like no one has,
you're on your toes, and shake your shoes,
Boy, how he goes, when he plays Blues.
I watch the crowd until he's through,
he can be proud they're cuckoo too,
his music's rare
you must declare,
the boy is there with two hot lips.

He's got hot lips when he plays jazz,
he draws out steps, like no one has,
you're on your toes, and shake your shoes,
Boy, how he goes, when he plays Blues.
I watch the crowd until he's through,
he can be proud they're cuckoo too,
his music's rare
you must declare,
the boy is there with two hot lips.

Heard him play the other night
and old man Oscar Clive
who is eighty five
sure as you're alive,
got so frisky when he started
out to do his stuff,
was told to sit right down
for being rough: and then he said:

He's got hot lips when he plays jazz,
he draws out steps, like no one has,
you're on your toes, and shake your shoes,
Boy, how he goes, when he plays Blues.
I watch the crowd until he's through,
he can be proud they're cuckoo too,
his music's rare
you must declare,
the boy is there with two hot lips.

He's got hot lips when he plays jazz,
he draws out steps, like no one has,
you're on your toes, and shake your shoes,
Boy, how he goes, when he plays Blues.
I watch the crowd until he's through,
he can be proud they're cuckoo too,
his music's rare
you must declare,
the boy is there with two hot lips.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Hot Lips 1922
Words & Music by Henry Busse, Henry Lange & Lou Davis
© MCMXXII by Leo Feist Inc.   New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 20 February 2008 at 14.37
in association with Doug Grierson
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