Paradise Blues 1916

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 5 Apr 2013
2013

Down old Mobile way
in a cabaret
there sits ragtime Lew,
He can show you how to Blue,
On that piano.
Any night at all
Miss Lucinda Hall
drift in to the place
with a smile
tells him to Blue
on that piano.
Maybe she'll start to sigh
maybe she'll start to cry,
pleadingly she'll say:

Honey don't play me no Op'ra,
Play me some blue melody.
I don't care nothin' 'bout Carmen
when you play that harmony
Oh! that's it, Honey Babe,
Oh, won't you play that strain again,
oh Pretty Papa,
Oh, Pretty Papa,
it sure do tantalise
lay right on those piano keys
I feel that feelin'
way down in my knees,
'cause when you play the Blues,
I'm right in Paradise!

Honey don't play me no Op'ra,
Play me some blue melody.
I don't care nothin' 'bout Carmen
when you play that harmony
Oh! that's it, Honey Babe,
Oh, won't you play that strain again,
oh Pretty Papa,
Oh, Pretty Papa,
it sure do tantalise
lay right on those piano keys
I feel that feelin'
way down in my knees,
'cause when you play the Blues,
I'm right in Paradise!

Not so long ago
Little Sadie Snow
thought she'd call on Lew
and she asked to hear him Blue
on that Piano.
He began to play
she began to sway
before he was through
all the folks
just got the Blues
on that piano.
Each time he'd try to stop
somebody else would hop
up to him and say:

Honey don't play me no Op'ra,
Play me some blue melody.
I don't care nothin' 'bout Carmen
when you play that harmony
Oh! that's it, Honey Babe,
Oh, won't you play that strain again,
oh Pretty Papa,
Oh, Pretty Papa,
it sure do tantalise
lay right on those piano keys
I feel that feelin'
way down in my knees,
'cause when you play the Blues,
I'm right in Paradise!

Honey don't play me no Op'ra,
Play me some blue melody.
I don't care nothin' 'bout Carmen
when you play that harmony
Oh! that's it, Honey Babe,
Oh, won't you play that strain again,
oh Pretty Papa,
Oh, Pretty Papa,
it sure do tantalise
lay right on those piano keys
I feel that feelin'
way down in my knees,
'cause when you play the Blues,
I'm right in Paradise!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Paradise Blues 1916
Music by Spencer Williams
Lyrics by Walter Hirsch
© MCMXVI by Frank K.Root & Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 5 April 2013 at 14.54
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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