The Magic Melody 1915 '     '

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 05 Mar 2005

What's the name of that melody?
Something mighty sweet about it
something hard to beat about it
Oh What's the name of that melody?
What a pity not to know
the name of such a pretty ditty
It always seems to interrupt you
when you're talking.

It seems to lift you from your feet
and start you walking,
when those 'cellos and fiddles
start in to fiddle that middle part
Clouds, fears, sighs, tears,
disappear as if by Magic.

The world goes around to the sound
of a syncopated melody.
Come on take a chance
and we'll dance to
the syncopated melody.
Beware, have a care,
have a care, when you're doin' it.
Keep movin' or you'll ruin it
and just so you'll know we'll show you
all the late improvements
in these syncopated movements,
Oh you start kind of slow
till you know how to throw
your shoulders in the air.
Then you slide and you glide
'round the room in an attitude of
"I don't care!"
You'll dance and you'll sway
and you'll think and you'll talk to it,
you'll work and you'll play
and you'll drink and you'll walk to it,
you can't get away from the Magic Melody.

What's the name of that melody?
Something mighty sweet about it
something hard to beat about it
Oh What's the name of that melody?
What a pity not to know
the name of such a pretty ditty
It always seems to interrupt you
when you're talking.

It seems to lift you from your feet
and start you walking,
when those 'cellos and fiddles
start in to fiddle that middle part
Clouds, fears, sighs, tears,
disappear as if by Magic.

The world goes around to the sound
of a syncopated melody.
Come on take a chance
and we'll dance to
the syncopated melody.
Beware, have a care,
have a care, when you're doin' it.
Keep movin' or you'll ruin it
and just so you'll know we'll show you
all the late improvements
in these syncopated movements,
Oh you start kind of slow
till you know how to throw
your shoulders in the air.
Then you slide and you glide
'round the room in an attitude of
"I don't care!"
You'll dance and you'll sway
and you'll think and you'll talk to it,
you'll work and you'll play
and you'll drink and you'll walk to it,
you can't get away from the Magic Melody.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Magic Melody 1915 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Schuyler Greene
N.B. This song is NOT a part of the score of "Nobody Home"
© MCMXV by T.B.Harms Inc. & Francis, Day & Hunter N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 05 March 2005 at 15.15
in association with Doug Grierson
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