Texas Tommy Swing 1911 "Ziegfeld Follies"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 1 Nov 2007
2007

Talk about your Grizzly Bear
out in San Francisco fair,
and the Turkey Trot
and the Lovin' Rag,
you have heard the story
'bout the dance in all its glory,
but there's one that's made a hit with me.
Look me, baby, in the eye,
cuddle closer to my side
and to me softly sing.
Hear that piano man!
Ain't that music grand!
Get ready now to swing.

It's a hopping on the right
and a hopping on the left,
like a good old Buck and Wing.
Do a graceful slide
by your baby's side,
like a birdie on the wing;
Throw your lovin' arms
around your baby's waist,
and to her softly sing
It's the Texas,
It's the Texas,
Oh you Texas Tommy Swing!

It's a hopping on the right
and a hopping on the left,
like a good old Buck and Wing.
Do a graceful slide
by your baby's side,
like a birdie on the wing;
Throw your lovin' arms
around your baby's waist,
and to her softly sing
It's the Texas,
It's the Texas,
Oh you Texas Tommy Swing!

Honey, don't you like to spoon
to that Texas Tommy Tune?
Don't you feel so fine?
Ain't it just divine?
Oh! That rag that he's a playing
makes me start to swaying,
'till I don't know what on earth to do.
Makes me think of San Antone,
Honey, won't you take me home?
Oh! put me in a trance.
Place your hand in mine,
Love me all the time
and do that loving dance.

It's a hopping on the right
and a hopping on the left,
like a good old Buck and Wing.
Do a graceful slide
by your baby's side,
like a birdie on the wing;
Throw your lovin' arms
around your baby's waist,
and to her softly sing
It's the Texas,
It's the Texas,
Oh you Texas Tommy Swing!

It's a hopping on the right
and a hopping on the left,
like a good old Buck and Wing.
Do a graceful slide
by your baby's side,
like a birdie on the wing;
Throw your lovin' arms
around your baby's waist,
and to her softly sing
It's the Texas,
It's the Texas,
Oh you Texas Tommy Swing!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Texas Tommy Swing 1911
from "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911"
at Jardin de Paris atop New York Theatre
Music by Sid Brown
Lyrics by Val Harris
© MCMXI by Harris & Brown transferred 1911 to
© MCMXI Jerome H. Remick & Co. N.Y. & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 1 November 2007 at 20.33
uin association with Doug Grierson
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