Please Don't Jazz My Mammy's Lullaby 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 17 July 2012
2012

I heard a jazz band
playing raggy melodies
and their harmonies
surely seemed to please,
until they played a lullaby
my mammy sang to me
back in the days so dear
to my memory.
I felt that they were wrong
when they ragged that dear old song,
I couldn't help but ask them pleadingly.

Please don't jazz my Mammy's lullaby,
Go to sleep my baby,
won't you hushabye.
I'll always remember
those dear old childhood days,
And my dear old Mammy
with her dear old fashioned ways.
God love her,
she would gently take me on her knee,
and this lullaby she'd sing to me
She sang it to me sweetly ev'ry night,
and believe me I know when it's right,
so please don't jazz my Mammy's lullaby.

Please don't jazz my Mammy's lullaby,
Go to sleep my baby,
won't you hushabye.
I'll always remember
those dear old childhood days,
And my dear old Mammy
with her dear old fashioned ways.
God love her,
she would gently take me on her knee,
and this lullaby she'd sing to me
She sang it to me sweetly ev'ry night,
and believe me I know when it's right,
so please don't jazz my Mammy's lullaby.

Perhaps those Jazz bands
like to jazz a lullaby
but I know that I surely can't see why,
unles they think the melody sounds
better played that way,
but when they ragged a song
that's so dear to me,
they spoiled its sweet refrain,
and it filled my heart with pain,
and now you'll always hear me
make this plea.

Please don't jazz my Mammy's lullaby,
Go to sleep my baby,
won't you hushabye.
I'll always remember
those dear old childhood days,
And my dear old Mammy
with her dear old fashioned ways.
God love her,
she would gently take me on her knee,
and this lullaby she'd sing to me
She sang it to me sweetly ev'ry night,
and believe me I know when it's right,
so please don't jazz my Mammy's lullaby.

Please don't jazz my Mammy's lullaby,
Go to sleep my baby,
won't you hushabye.
I'll always remember
those dear old childhood days,
And my dear old Mammy
with her dear old fashioned ways.
God love her,
she would gently take me on her knee,
and this lullaby she'd sing to me
She sang it to me sweetly ev'ry night,
and believe me I know when it's right,
so please don't jazz my Mammy's lullaby.

Soft karaoke
Words
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Please Don't Jazz My Mammy's Lullaby 1920
words & music by John E.Broderick
© MCMXX transferred to Jerome H.Remick & Co. NY & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 17 July 2012 at 15.31
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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