Syncopated Tune 1918 Ziegfeld Follies

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 4 Sep 2008
2008

I'm not a critic
but I must confess,
I have opinions that I must express,
I cannot help but argue more or less,
'Bout music of today.
The great composers we all know are great,
and all their efforts I appreciate,
but there is something
that I want to state,
I cannot help but say:

When I hear a syncopated tune,
no matter if it's in the morning,
night or noon,
I start to sway this way
and come what may
I always want to say:
Oh won't you play that melody again,
I surely idolize
that syncopated strain,
for there is something about it I crave,
It's made me a musical slave,
For when I hear a syncopated tune,
I simply can't make my feelings behave!

When I hear a syncopated tune,
no matter if it's in the morning,
night or noon,
I start to sway this way
and come what may
I always want to say:
Oh won't you play that melody again,
I surely idolize
that syncopated strain,
for there is something about it I crave,
It's made me a musical slave,
For when I hear a syncopated tune,
I simply can't make my feelings behave!

I'm not a critic
but I must confess,
I have opinions that I must express,
I cannot help but argue more or less,
'Bout music of today.
The great composers we all know are great,
and all their efforts I appreciate,
but there is something
that I want to state,
I cannot help but say:

When I hear a syncopated tune,
no matter if it's in the morning,
night or noon,
I start to sway this way
and come what may
I always want to say:
Oh won't you play that melody again,
I surely idolize
that syncopated strain,
for there is something about it I crave,
It's made me a musical slave,
For when I hear a syncopated tune,
I simply can't make my feelings behave!

When I hear a syncopated tune,
no matter if it's in the morning,
night or noon,
I start to sway this way
and come what may
I always want to say:
Oh won't you play that melody again,
I surely idolize
that syncopated strain,
for there is something about it I crave,
It's made me a musical slave,
For when I hear a syncopated tune,
I simply can't make my feelings behave!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Syncopated Tune 1918
from Ziegfeld Follies 1918
Music by Louis A.Hirsch
Lyrics by Gene Buck
© MCMXVIII by M.Witmark & Sons
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 4 September 2008 at 17.36
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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