Music Vot's Music Must Come From Berlin 1911

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

My oldest girl Anna
has played the piana
since she was six years of old age,
when she was a baby
I thought perhaps maybe,
she might yet could go on the stage.
She's got a Professor whose name is McMesser
and he knows twice lesser as she,
she plays ragtime airs
'till I'm getting grey hairs
so I said: "Listen here once to me."

Music vot's music must come from Berlin
where the music vot's music is played,
this ragtime called music
makes me sick and you sick
this ragtime called music is made by hand.
In Berlin a musiker's name must be Schmidt,
or anyways Fogle or Strauss
but in this crazy land,
there's a hand in command
of a fellow named John Jacob Krauss. Ach Gott!

Music vot's music must come from Berlin
where the music vot's music is heart,
These songs from Salome
"and you have to show me"
they should finish before they should start,
Ya voll!
But I wouldn't mind it
the one trouble is,
each time what I hear something new,
it is so syncopated,
as much as I hate it,
I find myself singing it too!

The songs in this nation
are all imitation
the words and the music is false,
but oh, what a feeling,
when you hear the "schpieling"
the beautiful "Blue Doughnut Waltz."
Your heart gets a pleasure in every measure.
It's all about sweetheart and love.
But there's something wrong,
for they're singing a song:
"I love my wife but of you kid glove."

Music vot's music must come from Berlin
where the music vot's music is played,
this ragtime called music
makes me sick and you sick
this ragtime called music is made by hand.
In Berlin a musiker's name must be Schmidt,
or anyways Fogle or Strauss
but in this crazy land,
there's a hand in command
of a fellow named John Jacob Krauss. Ach Gott!

Music vot's music must come from Berlin
where the music vot's music is heart,
These songs from Salome
"and you have to show me"
they should finish before they should start,
Ya voll!
But I wouldn't mind it
the one trouble is,
each time what I hear something new,
it is so syncopated,
as much as I hate it,
I find myself singing it too!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Music Vot's Music Must Come From Berlin 1911
Music by Grace Le Boy
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
© MCMXI by Leo Feist - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 20 May 2008 at 22.57
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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