
Date of issue: 24.01.2005
Record label: Avid Entertainment
Song language: English
The Old Music Master - Hoagy Carmichael |
One night long ago by the light of the moon |
An old music master sat compossing a tune |
His spirit was soaring and his heart full of joy |
When right out of nowhere stepped a little colored boy |
You gotta jump it, music master |
You gotta play that rhythm faster |
You’re never gonna get it played |
On the Happy Cat Hit Parade |
You better tell your friend Beethoven |
And Mister Reginald De Koven |
They gotta do the same as you |
Or they’re gonna be corny too |
Along about nineteen-seventeen |
Jazz’ll come upon the scene |
Then about nineteen-thirty-five |
You’ll begin to hear swing, boogie-woogie and jive |
You better tell the big broadcaster |
That you’re a solid music master |
And you’ll achieve posterity |
That’s a bit of advice from me |
The old music master simply sat there amazed |
As wide-eyed and open-mouthed he gazed and he gazed |
How can you be certain little boy, tell me how? |
Because I was born, he said, hundred years from now |
He hit a chord that rocked the spinet |
And disappeared into the infinite |
And up until the present day |
You can take it from me, he’s as right as can be |
Everything has happened that-a-way |
Along about nineteen-seventeen |
Jazz’ll come upon the scene |
Then about nineteen-thirty-five |
You’ll begin to hear swing, boogie-woogie and jive |
He hit a chord that rocked the spinet |
And disappeared into the infinite |
And up until the present day |
You can take it from me, he’s as right as can be |
Everything has happened that-a-way, yeah |
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