A popular song from 1917. Words and Music by Irving Berlin. Cover Art by Albert W. Barbelle. Copyright ©27 Aug 1917. Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
Sheet Music
Accompaniment
Lyrics
Chorus:
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
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein:
Performance
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