Sheet Music, 1910-1919
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ISBN
MUM00682, 0404
Description
Cover: drawing of Caucasian couples dancing in at a Ball; Publisher: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. (New York)
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States
Relational Format
music score
Original Format
scores
Original Collection
Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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Lyrics
Lyrics:
My daddy was a ragtime trombone player, My mammy was a ragtime cabareter, They met one day at a tango tea, There was a syncopated wedding and then came me; Folks think the way I walk is a fad, But it's a birthday present from my Mammy and Dad.
Chorus
I'm a Jazz baby, I want to be jazzing all the time; There's something in the tone of a saxophone, That makes me do a little wiggle all my own, Cause I'm a Jazz baby, Full of jaxbo harmony; That walk the dog, and ball the jack, that caused all the talk, Is just a copy of the way I nat'rally walk; Cause I'm a Jazz baby, Little Jazz baby that's me. Patter - Rocked to sleep while the cradle went to and fro, To and fro to the tune of the tickle toe, Ever since I started in to grow, I'd love to hear the music playin', See my dear old mammy swayin; Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, that's all I ever knew, All day long I never would get thro'; Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, that's all I want to do; Play me a little Jazz. Cause I'm a Jazz baby; Full of Jazbo harmony; That walk the dog and ball the jack that caused all the talk Is just a copy of the way I nat'rally walk, Cause I'm a Jazz baby; Little Jazz baby, that's me
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