At The Jazz Band Ball (Album Version)-Susannah McCorkle

[ti:At The Jazz Band Ball (Album Version)] [ar:Susannah McCorkle] [al:The Songs Of Johnny Mercer] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]At The Jazz Band Ball (Album Version) - Susannah McCorkle [00:06.35]Back when a nickel would buy [00:08.03] [00:08.70]One drink of respectable rye [00:10.46] [00:11.11]The players in the honky tonks [00:12.72] [00:13.33]Would have to work on a slide [00:15.02] [00:15.89]One two was known to a few [00:18.14]Some steady habitues too [00:20.64]So the word of mouth spread around the south [00:23.08]So entrez nous [00:24.07] [00:24.83]You better dig that jazz band ball [00:27.13]Cause it's the ball of them all [00:29.34] [00:29.88]For five musicians in the small saloon [00:31.95] [00:32.61]Inventin' the rag time tune [00:34.82]They kind made up their own brand [00:36.89]Without a note on the stand [00:39.26]And they called it D I X I E [00:41.74]Hot pan alley candy land [00:44.18] [00:49.79]Well sir you know it caught on [00:51.61] [00:52.16]What's more it was strictly bontom [00:54.34]Cause like the winner at the starting gate [00:56.33] [00:56.92]The music got it and gone [00:58.40] [00:59.11]Jazz moved from over the tracks [01:01.22] [01:01.86]Into the society shacks [01:03.54] [01:04.17]It was wonderful [01:05.41]And deductible from the income tax [01:08.48]You better dig that jazz band ball [01:10.83]It's the ball of them all [01:13.08] [01:13.59]When the trumpet player took a monologue [01:16.44]The people said "oh hot dog" [01:18.46]And if you ask them why the yell [01:20.30] [01:20.81]They kinda grin then say well [01:23.44]When the band plays J A double zee [01:25.67]It's a B A double L [01:27.73] [02:23.37]You better dig that jazz band ball [02:26.03]Cause it's the ball of them all [02:28.30] [02:37.98]When the band plays J A double zee [02:40.56]It's a B A double L [02:43.49]Ball