The Old Music Master-Hoagy Carmichael

[ti:The Old Music Master] [ar:Hoagy Carmichael] [al:The Essential Collection (Digitally Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Old Music Master - Hoagy Carmichael [00:04.33]Written by：Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael [00:08.67]One night long ago by the light of the moon [00:13.23]An old music master sat composing a tune [00:17.67]His spirit was soaring and his heart full of joy [00:21.93]When right out of nowhere stepped [00:24.16]A little colored boy [00:25.80] [00:26.44]You gotta jump it music master [00:28.61]You gotta play that rhythm faster [00:30.68]You're never gonna get it played [00:32.52]On the happy cat hit parade [00:34.92]You better tell your friend Beethoven [00:37.14]And mister Reginald De Koven [00:39.15]They better do the same as you [00:40.97]Or they're gonna be corny too [00:42.57] [00:43.16]Long about 1917 [00:45.72]Jazz'll come upon the scene [00:47.61]Then about 1935 [00:49.46]You'll begin to hear swing boogie woogie and jive [00:52.03]You better tellof big broadcaster [00:54.13]That you're a solid music master [00:56.16]And you'll achieve posterity [00:57.93]That's a bit of advice from me [01:00.04]The old music master [01:01.91]Simply sat there amazed [01:04.32]As wide eyed and open mouthed [01:06.65]He gazed and he gazed [01:08.52]How can you be certain little boy [01:11.46]Tell me how [01:12.89]Because I was born in seven hundred years from now [01:16.76] [01:17.37]He hit a chord that rocked the spinet [01:19.44]And disappeared into the infinite [01:21.66]And up until the present day [01:23.15]You can take it from me [01:24.35]He's as right as can be [01:25.72]Ev'rything has happened that a way [01:27.52] [01:56.81]Long about 1917 [01:59.20] [02:01.15]Jazz'll come upon a scene [02:03.34]Then about 1935 [02:05.05]You'll begin to hear swing boogie woogie jive [02:07.70] [02:08.36]He hit a chord that rocked the spinet [02:10.28]And disappeared into the infinite [02:12.57]And up until the present day [02:14.21]You can take it from me [02:15.40]He's as right as can be [02:16.59]Ev'rything has happened that a way yeah