A 1927 popular song
words and music by Walter Donaldson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In Dixieland, there’s a musical man
He has a good time just making folks happy
This musical man is a one-man band
Folks have to love him
For makin’ them glad
He don’t play melodies
Just plays blue harmonies
Just like nobody ever had
Chorus
He just plays chords
That make you feel grand
They call him Sam, the old accordion man
His dreamy chords remind you of Heaven
And they’re real chords
According to Dixieland
In the evening by the moonlight
When the sun is gone down
How those lovers, levee lovers
Love to hang around
He plays those chords like nobody can
They call him Sam, the old accordion man
Patter
Old chords, new chords, funny old blue chords
Morning, night and noon
Say! he’s got chords, nothing but hot chords
Never out of tune
- At the end of the day
‘Round the new mown hay
That’s just the time when
All Dixie is happy
Everyone salam that accordion man
They all salam him
For makin’ them glad
When he plays what he plays
Let me say that he plays
Just like no other master can
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: