12th Street Rag

12TH STREET RAG
W: James Sumner
M: Euday Bowman
Louis Armstrong
Key: C

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In a cer-tain ci-ty, 
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where the girls are cute and pret-ty, 
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they have a rag-gy jaz-zy jazz-time tune.
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When you hear that syn-co-pat-ed 
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Jazz cre-a-ted mel-o-dy 
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you could dance all morn-ing night and noon,
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When the slide trom-bone 
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and moan-ing sax-o-phone be-gin to play. 
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It will make you sad, 'twill make you glad
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Oh! Boy, What Joy, Burn my clothes 
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for I'm in Heav-en, 
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Wish I had a mil-lion wo-men,
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Sol-o-man in all his glo-ry, 
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could have told an-oth-er sto-ry, 
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Were he but liv-ing here to-day,
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With his thou-sand wives or more, 
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a Jazz-Band on some E-gypt shore, 
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he could dance the night and day a-way.
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I will tell you how they dance
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That tant-a-liz-ing 12th. Street Rag.
 
Chorus:

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First you slide and then you glide, 
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then shim-mie for a while;
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To the left then to the right 
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"Lame Duck" "Get o-ver Sal"
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Watch your step then Pi-rou-ette, 
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Fox Trot, then squeeze your pal
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O-ver you comes steal-ing 
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such a fun-ny feel-ing 
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'till you feel your sen-ses reel-ing,
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tant-a-liz-ing, hyp-no-tiz-ing, 
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mes-mer-iz-ing strain,
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I can't get e-nough of it 
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please play it o'er a-gain;
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I could dance for ev-er to this re-frain,
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To that 12th. Street, 
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Oh you 12th. Street Rag.