Lyr Add: I'm Nuts About Screwy Music (J Lunceford)

Subject: Lyr Add: I'm Nuts About Screwy Music
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 11:25 AM

Hear it on an archived program at WFMU, where it's attributed to bandleader Jimmy Lunceford. The band intervals at the end of each sung line are crazy, man!

~S~

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I'M NUTS ABOUT SCREWY MUSIC

At the State Asylum, on the second floor
I talked with a patient-- Room 234.
I said, "You don't look crazy,
Can't see why you're here."
He sort of looked at me and smiled,
And whispered in my ear.

"I'm nuts about screwy music.
I'm screwy about nutty rhythm.
I'm dilly over all silly melodies,
Crazy as a loon can be.
I'm daffy about goofy tempo,
I'm goofy about daffy changes,
I'm dippy over all dizzy harmony,
Written in a minor key.
I love to hear sounds that are queer;
I'm eccentric they say.
There's a boot in a flute,
Or a mellow moon in cello.
I'm nuts about screwy music.
I'm screwy about nutty rhythm.
I'm dilly over all silly melodies,
Crazy as a loon can be."

SH