That Slippery Slide Trombone

A popular song from 1912
Words by Harry Williams
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:

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Lyrics

1. Down, down, down in an old Rathskeller
   Where the strains of ragtime fill the cellar
   There’s a musical man, are you listening?
   Grand stand trombone “feller”
   Weepy, creepy, music mellow
   From his old trombone would slide
   And Lucy would shout as she hustled about
   Just to get up by his side
   Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Slide me a ragtime slide

Chorus:
Honey, honey, hear that tone
On that slippery slide trombone
Um Ain’t it beautiful
Um Tu-ti-frui-ti-ful!
Honey, don’t blow “Home Sweet Home”
Stephen, don’t you ever
Waste a breath to telephone
Slide, slide, when I glide, glide, glide
To the music of your slide trombone

2. Up, up, up from an old Rathskeller
   Why, they both slipped right up from the cellar
   On a slippery night, are you listening?
   She and that young “feller”
   They went out to slip the preacher
   But she slipped upon a stone
   She fell with a sprawl, he “accompanied his “doll”
   On his slipp’ry slide trombone
   Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, All that she did was moan

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