A popular song from 1910
Words and music by Irving Berlin and Ted Snyder
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- You all have your favorite masters
The kind what music give
Did you ever, ever meet my lovin’ piano man
No? then you’ve yet to live
He sits on his stool like a king on the throne
And plays and plays with ease
Why the melody just nestles in his fingertips
And oozes out in the keys
Chorus
Piano man, Piano man
He brings forth notes like no one can
Oh what a feelin’
When his notes come a-stealin’ why
I just feel like kneelin’ and appealin’ to my
Piano man, Piano man
Lawdy how his music lingers
May the Heaven bless his fingers
When he plays for days and days
It soothes me like a fan
Just lend your ear, dear, here
Near to my ever lovin’ piano man
- You’ve listened to Verdi’s music
Beethoven’s classy tune
I’m alludin’ to the fellows with the hair as long
As a rainy afternoon
They all needed love to inspire their notes
Be it the spring or fall
But my piano man
Just have him meet a piano grand
Then listen, Umm, Umm, that’s all
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: