Izzie Get Busy 1916

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 18 Mar 2006
2006

Little Isadore, little Isadore,
once wrote a popular song;
the words were crazy,
but the tune it was a daisy.
It brought such royalty,
they all quit work in his family
and when they needed dough
some one would let him know.
They'd say: "You're getting lazy
and the funds are very low.

So Izzy get busy,
write another little ragtime tune,
go get your "Wiolin"
tuck it underneath your chin,
play it, sway it,
they'll say it's great!
if you make it syncopate like
Yadeladera! Yadeladera!
The words don't count
just write about the moon.
Because the rent is due
no time to lose
besides the baby needs new shoes,
so Izzy get busy,
write another little ragtime tune.

Izzy get busy,
write another little ragtime tune,
go get your "Wiolin"
tuck it underneath your chin,
play it, sway it,
they'll say it's great!
if you make it syncopate like
Yadeladera! Yadeladera!
The words don't count
just write about the moon.
And just remember that the lemonzine
it needs a lot of "wazeline"
so Izzy get busy,
write another little ragtime tune.

Little Isadore, little Isadore,
so much money he made;
just like he found it
and he couldn't even count it.
But like the silly loons,
he wanted to write Op'ra tunes
when three months passed away,
his father said, one day:
"I need Pinochle money,
and that highbrow stuff don't pay

So Izzy get busy,
write another little ragtime tune,
go get your "Wiolin"
tuck it underneath your chin,
play it, sway it,
they'll say it's great!
if you make it syncopate like
Yadeladera! Yadeladera!
The words don't count
just write about the moon.
Because the rent is due
no time to lose
besides the baby needs new shoes,
so Izzy get busy,
write another little ragtime tune.

Izzy get busy,
write another little ragtime tune,
go get your "Wiolin"
tuck it underneath your chin,
play it, sway it,
they'll say it's great!
if you make it syncopate like
Yadeladera! Yadeladera!
The words don't count
just write about the moon.
And just remember that the lemonzine
it needs a lot of "wazeline"
so Izzy get busy,
write another little ragtime tune.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Izzie Get Busy 1916
Words and Music by A. Seymour Brown
© MCMXVI by Jerome H. Remick & Co.  N.Y. & Detroit
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 18 March 2006 at 00.34
in association with Doug Grierson
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