Now You Has Jazz - Cole Porter

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 we’re gettin' some place

Take a box, one that rocks

Take a blue horn, New Orleans-born

Ah, you take a stick with a lick

Take a bone, ho-ho-hold the phone

Take a spot, cool and hot

Now you has jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz

Le tout ensemble

Ah, that’s 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

That’s 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 what’s left here?

Yeah, daddy, yeah, here we go

If you sail a-sailin', sailin' over the sea

When you wait for me

Take my tip, they’re all molto hip in Italy

Well, arrivederci as for France

Oh, I know you’re very big there

Yes, believe it or not, I do believe, I do indeed

The Frenchmen’s 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 that’s jazz