| Dear gentlefolk of Newport
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| Or maybe I should say, hats and cats
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| I want you to lend an ear
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| Because, eh, I want you to hear
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| Some really shimmering sharps and flats
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| For these cozy virtuosi
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| Just about the greatest in the trade
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| Are fixin' to show you now precisely how
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| Or approximately jazz music is made
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| Well, you take some skins, jazz begins
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| Then you take a bass
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| Man, now we’re gettin' some place
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| Take a box, one that rocks
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| Take a blue horn, New Orleans-born
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| Ah, you take a stick with a lick
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| Take a bone, ho-ho-hold the phone
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| Take a spot, cool and hot
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| Now you has jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz
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| Le tout ensemble
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| Ah, that’s positively therapeutic
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| Now you has jazz, jazz, jazz
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| Messrs, Hall and Young
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| Ah said Hall and Tommy Young
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| Now you has Messrs Kyle and Shaw
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| That’s Billy Kyle, Arvel Shaw
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| Now you has Mr. Barret Deans
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| Well, listen to, well, you know who
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| Say hey pops, you wanna grab a little of what’s left here?
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| Yeah, daddy, yeah, here we go
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| If you sail a-sailin', sailin' over the sea
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| When you wait for me
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| Take my tip, they’re all molto hip in Italy
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| Well, arrivederci as for France
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| Oh, I know you’re very big there
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| Yes, believe it or not, I do believe, I do indeed
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| The Frenchmen’s all, prefer what they call 'Le jazz hot'
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| Take a plane, go to Siam
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| In Bangkok today 'round the clock
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| Well, they all like to jam
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| Indians on the Amazon
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| Beat one bar and all of 'em are
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| Ah well, gone, man, gone
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| Ah, from the equator up to the pole
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| Everybody wingin', everybody singin'
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| That rock, rock, rock, rock, rock and roll
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| From the east to the west
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| From the coast to the coast jazz is king
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| Jazz is the thing that folks dig most
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| Now that’s jazz |