Sway 1913

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19 Nov 2009
2009

You often hear people say
that music isn't music
if it's ragtime,
Those same folks
will start to sway
ev'ry time they hear it,
whenever they are near it,
Faust is all right once a year
but ragtime's what we want to hear,
so come on honey,
come on dear,
let's sway this way.

Don't sit there like you don't care,
but sway, sway,
you know darned well
this tune's a bear
so sway, sway,
Funny how some people
try to make believe,
Grand opera is the only music,
Listen Steve, down in your heart
when you say
that you know you're wrong,
a ragtime song
will make anybody
with a musical instinct
sway, sway,
It captures both the wise guy
and the jay, hey!
Come on ev'rybody
start to singing
when you get real happy
start to swinging
then stand right up
and let your bodies
sway this way.

Don't sit there like you don't care,
but sway, sway,
you know darned well
this tune's a bear
so sway, sway,
Funny how some people
try to make believe,
Grand opera is the only music,
Listen Steve, down in your heart
when you say
that you know you're wrong,
a ragtime song
will make anybody
with a musical instinct
sway, sway,
It captures both the wise guy
and the jay, hey!
Come on ev'rybody
start to singing
when you get real happy
start to swinging
then stand right up
and let your bodies
sway this way.

When you are sad
feeling bad
imagine life a joke
and want to leave it,
That's the time you wish you had
something round to cheer you,
some ragtime music near you,
some folks cry and rant and rave,
'bout ragtime digging its own grave,
when they say that
just say behave
let's sway this way.

Don't sit there like you don't care,
but sway, sway,
you know darned well
this tune's a bear
so sway, sway,
Funny how some people
try to make believe,
Grand opera is the only music,
Listen Steve, down in your heart
when you say
that you know you're wrong,
a ragtime song
will make anybody
with a musical instinct
sway, sway,
It captures both the wise guy
and the jay, hey!
Come on ev'rybody
start to singing
when you get real happy
start to swinging
then stand right up
and let your bodies
sway this way.

Don't sit there like you don't care,
but sway, sway,
you know darned well
this tune's a bear
so sway, sway,
Funny how some people
try to make believe,
Grand opera is the only music,
Listen Steve, down in your heart
when you say
that you know you're wrong,
a ragtime song
will make anybody
with a musical instinct
sway, sway,
It captures both the wise guy
and the jay, hey!
Come on ev'rybody
start to singing
when you get real happy
start to swinging
then stand right up
and let your bodies
sway this way.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Sway 1913
words & music by Tom Powell
© 1913 by Tom Powell Mus.Co.Inc. - Springfield, Ohio
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 19 November 2009 at 21.23
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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