GOOD OLD NEW YORK
(Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton / Ed Werac)
Jelly Roll Morton Seven - 1940
Also recorded by:
Geoff Cole; M 'N' M Trio; Silver Leaf Jazz Band; Butch Thompson.
Good old New York, it's never down
We're gonna have a good time
Lovely, and the weather's fine
Knife and fork, a bottle and a cork
That's the way to spell New York
I will be there
In my easy chair
We'll have a good time, baby
I don't mean maybe
In good old New York
TRIVIA:
Recorded January 4th 1940 in tribute
to the New York 1939/1940 World's Fair.
(Transcribed by Monique Adriaansen & Mel Priddle - June 2006)