Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Crazy Rhythm





Crazy Rhythm

music by Roger Wolfe Kahn (left) & Joseph Meyer

lyric by Irving Caesar (top)

I feel like the Emperor Nero when Rome was a very hot town.

Father Knickerbocker, forgive me, I play while your city burns down.

Through all its nightlife I fiddle away; it's not the right life but think of the pay.

Some day I will bid it goodbye; I'll put my fiddle away and say...

Crazy rhythm here's the doorway; I'll go my way, you go your way.

Crazy rhythm from now on we're through.

Here is where we have a showdown; I'm too high hat, you're too low down.

Crazy rhythm, here's goodbye to you.

They say that when a highbrow meets a lowbrow walking along Broadway;

Soon the highbrow, he has no brow; oh, it's a shame, and you're to blame...

What's the use of Prohibition? You produce the same condition,

Crazy rhythm, I've gone crazy too.

Every Greek, each Turk and each Latin, the Russians and the Prussians as well;

When they seek the lure of Manhattan are sure to come under your spell.

Their native folksongs they soon throw away, those Harlem songs they soon learn to play.

Can't you fall for Carnegie Hall? Oh, Danny, call it a day and we'll stay...

Crazy rhythm, here's the doorway, I'll go my way, you go your way.

Crazy rhythm. from now on we're through.

Here is where we have a showdown; I'm too high hat, you're too low down,

Crazy rhythm, here's goodbye to you.

They say that when a highbrow meets a lowbrow walking along Broadway,

Soon the highbrow he has no brow, oh, it's a shame and you're too blame...

What's the use of Prohibition? You produce the same condition,

Crazy rhythm I've gone crazy too...

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