Play Me Something I Can Dance To 1920 'Oui Madame'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 13 Jan 2004

Music, I love it
but make it gay and plenty of it.
Nothing romantic,
Romantic ballads drive me frantic.
Torture some other,
with dismal songs of home and mother.
I don't want to ever hear another.
Don't waste a minute
on anything with feeling in it.
For sentimental,
I never cared a continental.
If you'd get me where I dwell
and you must play something
well, well, well, well.

Play me something I can dance to,
something rollicking and gay.
I am longing for a chance to
hear a jazz band play.
A onestep sets me dancing gaily,
Foxtrots fill me with delight,
So play them on your eukeléle
and I will dance all night.

Play me something I can dance to,
something rollicking and gay.
I am longing for a chance to
hear a jazz band play.
A onestep sets me dancing gaily,
Foxtrots fill me with delight,
So play them on your eukeléle
and I will dance all night.

Don't keep me waiting,
while you play something elevating.
Mister Puccini, does not hit me
a teeny weeny.
Music worth knowin'
is that that sets the foot agoin'.
Something lively a la Georgie Cohan.
Don't entertain me with classy stuff
you'll only pain me.
I may sit through it,
but dancing to it,
I can't do it.
You know what it's got to be
if you want to play for me,
you know me.

Play me something I can dance to,
something rollicking and gay.
I am longing for a chance to
hear a jazz band play.
A onestep sets me dancing gaily,
Foxtrots fill me with delight,
So play them on your eukeléle
and I will dance all night.

Play me something I can dance to,
something rollicking and gay.
I am longing for a chance to
hear a jazz band play.
A onestep sets me dancing gaily,
Foxtrots fill me with delight,
So play them on your eukeléle
and I will dance all night.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Play Me Something I Can Dance To 1920
Lyrics by Robert B. Smith
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright MCMXX by T.B.Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 13 January 2004 at 21.27
in association with Doug Grierson
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Alfred & Aarons Presents The Musical Comedy "Oui Madame."
Book and Lyrics by G.M. Wright and Robert B. Smith.
Music by Victor Herbert.
Robert B. Smith Victor Herbert Publication:
New York: T.B. Harms, 1920.
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