A post WWI song from 1919
Words by Jack Yellen
Music by Albert Gumble
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Where’s that music comin’ from
Listen to that rum-tum-tum
Come a little nearer
Now it’s gettin’ clearer
Ain’t they playin’ some
That’s what I call music sweet
Puts the tickle in your feet
I know from the metre there’s a certain leader
Comin’ down the street
Chorus
Here comes Ragtime Alexander
Dixie’s famous band commander
No more worry no more blues
Ev’rybody run along and get your dancin’ shoes
When it comes to syncopation
That’s the best band in creation
Oh boy what a time
Cross the Mason Dixon line
Alexander’s Band is back in Dixie land
- Now we’ll have some harmonies
Floatin’ on the evenin’ breeze
When the steamboat loaders
And the cotton toters
Start their jubilees
I’ll be down to ev’ry one
Just as quick as I can run
With my lovin’ baby
Let me tell you maybe
I won’t have some fun
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: