IRVING BERLIN lyrics - Mr. Jazz Himself

[1st verse:]

I know a certain young fellow

Who's filling people with joy

How would you like to say "hello"

To this remarkable boy?

Ev'ryone's talking about him

He's been the topic for days

He's just a winsome gent

With an instrument that plays

I'd like to have you meet him



[Refrain:]

Shake hands with Mister Jazz himself

He took the saxophone from off the shelf

And when you hear him play

You'll say that he's been taking lessons up in Heaven

That dreamy moan is his own 'riginality

He knows a strange sort of change in a minor key

I don't know how he does it

But when he starts to play the blues

He's like a messenger of happy news

No one else could ever do it as

My friend, Mister Jazz



[2nd verse:]

I never cared about discords

They never cared about me

But when I listen to his chords

We both agree to agree

He's not a Wagner or Verdi

He's not a classy highbrow

He's just a boy who has

Put the joy in jazz and now

I'd like to have you meet him