A popular song from 1922. Words and music by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake. With apologies to the Franz Schubert.
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Just take the Serenade that Schubert wrote
And take the classic shade from ev’ry note
Then with that melody start in to playing
Forget the artist and the olden ways
But like the smartest of our modern days
Just fill that melody chuck full of
Jazzy syncopations, razzy modulations
When you get to that minor strain
Oh, Lawdy, let me hear you sit right on it
Why just to hear it oh! once again
I would take my diamond ring right off and pawn it
I’d bet my very last pair of shoes
That even Paderewsky would choose
The jazzy Serenade
When he hears it played
Serenade blues
Obbligato
Through the leaves the night winds moving
Murmur so low and sweet
To thy chamber window, roving
Love hath led my feet
Silent prayers, blissful feeling
Link us, though apart
To each dreaming heart
To each dreaming heart