Now You Has Jazz

I'd like me to lend an ear to some shimmering sharps and flats

Jesus!

These cozy voices are just about the greatest in the trade

They're gonna show you now exactly how, or approximately

Jazz music is made, yes

And now you take some skin, jazz begins

Take a bass, now we get someplace

Take a box, the one that rocks

New Orleans horn blown by Tommy Young

Yeah, take a stick, one with a lick

Take a bone, oh, on the phone

Take a spot, the one that's hot

Now you have jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz

La toute chanson, kinda therapeutic

Now you have jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz

Peanuts, hot corn on the planet

Tommy Young on that trombone

Now you have jazz, jazz, jazz

Billy Kyle at the piano

Walt Herbert backs him up on the bass, old face

Now listen to a little Danny Barcelona

Now listen to, well you know who

Come on down here, Pops

Don't you wanna pick up on what's left

Here, daddy? (Silly boy, silly boy)

Him, Bing Crosby in Technicolor

If you sail (Sail it, sail it) across the sea (Won't you wait for me?)

Take my tip, they're almost hip in Italy

(Well, our Duce is for France) Oh, they dig it

(Yes, believe it or not) I believe it, yes indeed

(The Frenchmen all prefer what they call "le jazz hot", boy)

Well, you take a plane (Oh, bop a doo zee)

Go to Siam (Da, de ya)

In Bangkok, today 'round the clock

They love to jam (Bop a doo dee zee)

The Indians on (Oh, bop a da da da da)

The Amazon (Please, da de doo doo zay)

They beat one bop and all of them are

(Well, gone man, gone)

From the equator up to the pole

Everybody's swinging, everybody's singing

Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock

From the east to the west, out to the coast

Jazz is king, jazz is a thing that folks dig

Come on, zot, zot, zot, oh, zot

La da da da da da, that is jazz

Thank you, thank you, thank you