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
Solomon 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
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 Over 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 forever to this refrain To that 12th Street, oh, you 12th Street Rag
Jazz-time music is the rage, this is a syncopated age Ev'rybody 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 Father 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
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 Over 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 RagTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
