12th Street Rag Song
Words by James S. Sumner, Music by Euday L. Bowman
Words by James S. Sumner, Music by Euday L. Bowman
(Words with an underscore __ are tied over to the next beat)
(Verses are sung to the A section theme, the chorus to the B section theme.)
(Verses are sung to the A section theme, the chorus to the B section theme.)
Verse 1: In a certain city,* where the girls are cute and pretty,
They have__ a raggy jazzy jazz-time tune.
When you hear that syncopated Jazz created melody
You__ could dance all morning night and noon,
When the slide trombone and moaning saxophone begin to play,
It__ will make you sad, 'twill make you glad.
Oh! Boy, What Joy,
Burn my clothes for I'm in Heaven, Wish I had a million women.
They have__ a raggy jazzy jazz-time tune.
When you hear that syncopated Jazz created melody
You__ could dance all morning night and noon,
When the slide trombone and moaning saxophone begin to play,
It__ will make you sad, 'twill make you glad.
Oh! Boy, What Joy,
Burn my clothes for I'm in Heaven, Wish I had a million women.
Soloman [sic] in all his glory, could have told another story__,
Were he but living here today,
With his thousand wives or more, a Jazz Band on some Egypt shore,
he__ could dance the night and day away.
I__ will tell__ you how__ they dance__
That tantalizing 12th Street Rag.
*In some scores this reads "Down in Kansas City..."
Were he but living here today,
With his thousand wives or more, a Jazz Band on some Egypt shore,
he__ could dance the night and day away.
I__ will tell__ you how__ they dance__
That tantalizing 12th Street Rag.
*In some scores this reads "Down in Kansas City..."
Chorus: First you slide, and then you glide, then shimmie for a while;
To the left, then to the right, "Lame Duck," "Get over Sal"
Watch your step then Pirouette, Fox Trot, then squeeze your pal
O-ver you__ comes__ stealing such a funny feeling, 'till you feel your senses reeling.
Tantalizing, hypnotizing, mesmerizing strain,
I can't get enough of it, please play it o'er again;
I__ could dance__ for ever to this refrain,
To that 12th Street, Oh you 12th Street Rag.
To the left, then to the right, "Lame Duck," "Get over Sal"
Watch your step then Pirouette, Fox Trot, then squeeze your pal
O-ver you__ comes__ stealing such a funny feeling, 'till you feel your senses reeling.
Tantalizing, hypnotizing, mesmerizing strain,
I can't get enough of it, please play it o'er again;
I__ could dance__ for ever to this refrain,
To that 12th Street, Oh you 12th Street Rag.
Verse 2: Jazz-time music is the rage, this is a syncopated age,
ev__'ry body loves a jazz-time tune.
For the music captivating, sets your heart a palpitating__
You just can't make your feet behave.
Ancients youths of sixty four, do steps they never did before,
Fa__ther time is mad, no one grows old.
Oh! Boy, What Joy,
Put your loving arms around me, Say Babe, ain't you glad you found me,
ev__'ry body loves a jazz-time tune.
For the music captivating, sets your heart a palpitating__
You just can't make your feet behave.
Ancients youths of sixty four, do steps they never did before,
Fa__ther time is mad, no one grows old.
Oh! Boy, What Joy,
Put your loving arms around me, Say Babe, ain't you glad you found me,
Cleopatra on the Nile, could vamp right in the latest style,
If__ she'd only known this ragtime tune;
Old King Cole a merry soul, called for his pipe and then his bowl,
And__ the first jazz band his fiddlers three.
Play__, oh play__ me while__ I dance__
That tantalizing 12th Street Rag.
If__ she'd only known this ragtime tune;
Old King Cole a merry soul, called for his pipe and then his bowl,
And__ the first jazz band his fiddlers three.
Play__, oh play__ me while__ I dance__
That tantalizing 12th Street Rag.
Chorus: First you slide, and then you glide, then shimmie for a while;
To the left, then to the right, "Lame Duck," "Get over Sal"
Watch your step then Pirouette, Fox Trot, then squeeze your pal
O-ver you__ comes__ stealing such a funny feeling, 'till you feel your senses reeling.
Tantalizing, hypnotizing, mesmerizing strain,
I can't get enough of it, please play it o'er again;
I__ could dance__ for ever to this refrain,
To that 12th Street, Oh you 12th Street Rag.
To the left, then to the right, "Lame Duck," "Get over Sal"
Watch your step then Pirouette, Fox Trot, then squeeze your pal
O-ver you__ comes__ stealing such a funny feeling, 'till you feel your senses reeling.
Tantalizing, hypnotizing, mesmerizing strain,
I can't get enough of it, please play it o'er again;
I__ could dance__ for ever to this refrain,
To that 12th Street, Oh you 12th Street Rag.
