Featured in the film “Hit Parade of 1941”, 1940.
Words by Walter Bullock.
Music by Jule Styne.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Swing low sweet rhythm
I got a melancholy heart to move
So keep the music in that jumpin’ groove
Swing low sweet rhythm
Rhythm that send me, out of this world
Oh blow that trumpet
There’s something in that muted misery
There’s something in that solid harmony
That makes a hopeless thing of me
Sweet rhythm the man I love ain’t classy
Likes his music high and brassy
So he lost me
Lot a sleepless nights it cost me
Oh! you know I loved him so
So swing low sweet rhythm
I gotta wake up from this mellow dream
I can’t use it
So bring the music in right on the beam
And don’t lose it
Swing low sweet rhythm
Sweet rhythm, swing low