Movin' Man Don't Take My Baby Grand 1911

by James Pitt-Payne, london UK - 17 January 2011
2011

Piano Joe, was Hannah's beau,
He didn't love Miss Hannah
but he loved the grand piano
in her hall;
And he'd call ev'ry day.
just to sit there and play.
Say, that baby grand,
you understand,
Miss Hannah only hired
'cause his playing she admired;
but one day she couldn't pay,
They came to take this grand away,
Upon her knees she pleaded
with the moving man this way.

Please don't take my baby grand,
don't you dare to lay a hand
on that box of joy,
that music toy,
for if it's gone
I'll lose my honey boy,
Oh! movin' man, please hear my plea,
just leave that instrument with me;
Take the chairs from the flat,
dog and the cat,
coat off the rack,
clothes off my back,
but, movin' man, please
leave my baby grand.

Please don't take my baby grand,
don't you dare to lay a hand
on that box of joy,
that music toy,
for if it's gone
I'll lose my honey boy,
Oh! movin' man, please hear my plea,
just leave that instrument with me;
Take the chairs from the flat,
dog and the cat,
coat off the rack,
clothes off my back,
but, movin' man, please
leave my baby grand.

The man that played that grand
just made me love him,
when his fingers played the music
that still lingers in my brain;
A refrain that I must hear again,
Or I'll die.
Why when he plays I'm in a daze,
He starts my heart a goin'
till the love is over flowin'
and I run up to my hon'
and give him kisses by the ton,
Please don't demand that baby grand,
or else my joys are done.

Please don't take my baby grand,
don't you dare to lay a hand
on that box of joy,
that music toy,
for if it's gone
I'll lose my honey boy,
Oh! movin' man, please hear my plea,
just leave that instrument with me;
Take the chairs from the flat,
dog and the cat,
coat off the rack,
clothes off my back,
but, movin' man, please
leave my baby grand.

Please don't take my baby grand,
don't you dare to lay a hand
on that box of joy,
that music toy,
for if it's gone
I'll lose my honey boy,
Oh! movin' man, please hear my plea,
just leave that instrument with me;
Take the chairs from the flat,
dog and the cat,
coat off the rack,
clothes off my back,
but, movin' man, please
leave my baby grand.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Movin' Man Don't Take My Baby Grand 1911
Music by Ted Snyder
Lyrics by Bert Kalmar
© 1911 by Ted Snyder Co. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 17 January 2011 at 14.02
in association with Veda Meyer-Casten
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