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 were gettin some place Take a box, one that rocks Take a blue horn, New Orleansborn Ah, you take a stick with a lick Take a bone, hohohold the phone Take a spot, cool and hot Now you has jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz Le tout ensemble Ah, thats 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 Thats 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 whats left here? Yeah, daddy, yeah, here we go If you sail asailin, sailin over the sea When you wait for me Take my tip, theyre all molto hip in Italy Well, arrivederci as for France Oh, I know youre 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 Now thats jazz
jazz, rock, ah, messrs, take