When Alexander Blues The Blues 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 17 Mar 2010
2010

Now Alexander, now Alexander
was a syncopating man
Now Alexander, now Alexander
Blues the blues like no one can.
He always plays in the minor keys
Plays the wierdest harmonies,
Ragtime was his special'ty,
he cures the blues for me.

When Alexander blues the blues,
he's like a messenger of happy news
When Alexander blues the blues
you've got to step, you can't refuse,
He's got a way that's all his own
He makes that old piano moan,
He puts the jazzbo in your shoes,
when Alexander blues the blues.

When you're feeling blue
don't know what to do
let me introduce you
to the man who cures the blues
and when you hear him play
ev'ry night and day
he will help to drive
the dreary weary blues away
and when he starts to blue
that old Swanee River too
he puts the jazzbo in your shoes
when Alexander blues the blues.

When Alexander blues the blues,
he's like a messenger of happy news
When Alexander blues the blues
you've got to step, you can't refuse,
He's got a way that's all his own
He makes that old piano moan,
He puts the jazzbo in your shoes,
when Alexander blues the blues.

Sweet music lingers
in all his fingers
when he plays those polished keys,
He's so entrancing
he keeps you dancing
when he plays those melodies
and when he's bluing Sweet Mammy Mine
in his syncopated time,
My thoughts go way down below
The Mason Dixon Line.

When Alexander blues the blues,
he's like a messenger of happy news
When Alexander blues the blues
you've got to step, you can't refuse,
He's got a way that's all his own
He makes that old piano moan,
He puts the jazzbo in your shoes,
when Alexander blues the blues.

When you're feeling blue
don't know what to do
let me introduce you
to the man who cures the blues
and when you hear him play
ev'ry night and day
he will help to drive
the dreary weary blues away
and when he starts to blue
that old Swanee River too
he puts the jazzbo in your shoes
when Alexander blues the blues.

When Alexander blues the blues,
he's like a messenger of happy news
When Alexander blues the blues
you've got to step, you can't refuse,
He's got a way that's all his own
He makes that old piano moan,
He puts the jazzbo in your shoes,
when Alexander blues the blues.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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When Alexander Blues The Blues 1920
Melody by Harry D. Squires
Lyric by Max C.Freedman
© 1920 by Jack Mills Inc. - N.Y.C.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 16.44
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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