Jazzin' The Cotton Town Blues 1917

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 14 May 2009
2009

There's a Jazz Band in Mississippi
keeping the darkies dippy,
My, how they cry,
how they moan.
When they put on the jazz notes heavy
each night on the levee,
they're in a class of their own,
For the cornet, trombone and the clarinet
play the kind of blues you won't forget!
When the folks from the old plantation
come for a celebration.
Full of pep, just see them

Toddlelin on, wobblelin on.
Having a big Jubilee
old folks and young folks dancing
dark brown skin girls
a dancing. Full of glee,
oh bonny baby. New notes that sigh
blue notes that cry
make you wear out
your dancing shoes
and there is some joy
on the levee, boy,
when Andy's band in Dixieland,
is jazzin' the cotton town
jazzin' the cotton town
in jazzin' the cotton tail blues.

When the jazz notes start in a poppin'
ev'ryone starts a hoppin'
my how they fly to that band
those melodies make you quiver
just like a rippling river
oh, bonny babe, ain't it grand.
They can take a tune that is sweet and oh
just the Silver Threads among the Gold
and they'll put in those jazz notes weary
makin' you feel so cheery
Then you start, and we go

Toddlelin on, wobblelin on.
Having a big Jubilee
old folks and young folks dancing
dark brown skin girls
a dancing. Full of glee,
oh bonny baby. New notes that sigh
blue notes that cry
make you wear out
your dancing shoes
and there is some joy
on the levee, boy,
when Andy's band in Dixieland,
is jazzin' the cotton town
jazzin' the cotton town
in jazzin' the cotton tail blues.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Jazzin' The Cotton Town Blues 1917
Music by Harry Olsen
Lyrics by Roger Lewis
© MCMXVII by M.Witmark & Sons
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 14 May 2009 at 23.05
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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