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GUEST,MorwenEdhelwen1 Lyr Add: Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin) (15) RE: Lyr Add: Alexander's Band Is Back In Dixieland 25 Aug 13


Here are the lyrics to a song published in 1919 as a response to ARB.

ALEXANDER'S BAND IS BACK IN DIXIELAND
(Jack Yellen/Albert Gumble. Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co, Detroit, Michigan and New York, 1919)
Sheet music from In Harmony: Sheet Music From Indiana> (Downloadable as a PDF).

1. Where's that music comin' from
Listen to that rum-tum-tum
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 Dixieland.

PATTER CHORUS
Hear the clarinetter
Listen to the bugle
Lordy can't he blow
Yes bo!

Listen to the fiddler
I wish I was the fiddler and he was my bow
Who is that a moanin'
That's trombone
Saxophone
Some moan
That's the boy that's gonna make me leave my home
Oh boy what a time
'Cross the Mason-Dixon Line
Alexander's band is back in Dixieland.

2. 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

(CHORUS)


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