NOW YOU HAS JAZZ Album : High Society (Cole Porter) Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby
Dear gentlefolk of Newport Or maybe I should say "hats and cats, I want you to lend an ear Because eh I want you to hear Some really shimmering sharps and flats. For these cozy virtuosi, Just about the greatest in the trade, Are fixin' to show you now Precisely how Or approximately Jazz music is made.
Well you take some skins, Jazz begins, Then you take a bass man now we're gettin' some place Take a box, One that rocks, Take a blue horn New Orleans-born. Ah you take a stick, With a lick, Take a bone, Ho-ho-hold the phone, Take a spot, Cool and hot, Now you has jazz jazz jazz, jazz, jazz. Le tout ensemble
Ah that's positively...therapeutic Now you has jazz jazz jazz Messrs, Hall and Young Ah said Hall And Tommy Young Now you has messrs Kyle and Shaw That's Billy Kyle Arvel Shaw Now you has Mr Barret Deans Well listen to...well you know who
Say hey pops, you wanna grab a little of what's left here? Yeah daddy yeah Here we go. If you sail a-sailin, sailin' Over the sea, When you wait for me, Take my tip, they're all molto hip in Italy. Well arrivederci As for France, Oh I know you're very big there Yes believe it or not, I do believe, I do indeed, The Frenchmens all, prefer what they call "Le Jazz Hot."
Take a plane Go to Siam, In Bangkok today, 'round the clock, Well they all like to jam. Indians on The Amazon Beat one bar, and all of 'em are Ah well gone, man, gone. Ah from the Equator Up to the Pole, Everybody wingin' Everybody singin' That rock, rock, rock, rock, rock and roll. From the East to the West From the coast to the coast Jazz is king, Jazz is the thing that folks dig most.