When I Hear That Jazz Band Play 1917 Ziegfeld Follies

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 11 Oct 2007
2007

You've heard of nearly ev'ry kind of band,
but there is one that's come from Dixieland.
You'll hear them very soon,
they play all out of tune,
and I never heard such music played before.
You or no one else I know has
crazy harmony, lazy melody,
and they call it jazz.

Say what you will,
you can't keep still,
while they're playing.
You can't resist,
you start to twist
while you're swaying.
Hear that trombone
with that peculiar moaning,
that saxaphone,
with the peculiar groaning.
They're playing "Some"
just hear that drum,
don't you think that music's grand?
Something they do
I never knew
just makes me feel
Oh, so good that I could
throw myself away.

Keep Sousa give me the jazz,
when they play that Razamataz.
I'm gone when
I hear that jazz band play.

Say what you will,
you can't keep still,
while they're playing.
You can't resist,
you start to twist
while you're swaying.
Hear that trombone
with that peculiar moaning,
that saxaphone,
with the peculiar groaning.
They're playing "Some"
just hear that drum,
don't you think that music's grand?
Something they do
I never knew
just makes me feel
Oh, so good that I could
throw myself away.

Keep Sousa give me the jazz,
when they play that Razamataz.
I'm gone when
I hear that jazz band play.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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When I Hear That Jazz Band Play 1917
Music by Dave Stamper
Lyrics by Gene Buck
© MCMXVII by T.B.Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 11 October 2007 at 7.35pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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