NASHVILLE NIGHTINGALE
>From the Broadway Revue "Nifties Of 1923"
(Lyric: Irving Caesar / Music: George Gershwin)


Marion Harris - 1923
Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians (Instr.) - 1924
Joseph C. Smith's Orch. (Instr.) - 1924
Victor Arden & Phil Ohman (Instr.) - 1924
The Charleston Seven (Instr.) - 1924
Ray Starita's Piccadilly Revels Dance Band (Instr.) - 1927

Also recorded by: Barbara Cook


There's a sweet singin' lady down in Tennessee
I mean Nashville, Tennessee
Everyone down in Dixie loves her harmony
I mean craves her harmony

All the darktown preachers and the Bible teachers
Say they're losin' all their trade
For the good church people all desert the steeple
When she starts to serenade

Now you won't find a body that is feelin' blue
Down in Nashville, Tennesse
For when they all get that way
They run to her and say

Nashville Nightingale
Sing a little song for me, all for me
Nashville Nightingale, gimme some of this
Doo-doo-dee-doo-dee-doo, doo-doo-dee-doo-dee-doo

Nashville Nightingale
Up and down the scale for me, wail for me
Nightingale, don't fail, fill my heart with bliss

When you sing 
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, birdy, how you thrill me
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Dark town tetrazini, how you kill me

Neath the Swanee moon
Sing a little tune for me, croon for me
Dee-doo-dee-doo-doo, Nashville Nightingale

(Instrumental Break)

Doo-doo-dee-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

(Instrumental Break)

When you sing 
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, birdy, how you thrill me
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Dark town tetrazini, how you kill me

Neath the Swanee moon
Sing a little tune for me, croon for me
Dee-doo-dee-doo-doo, Nashville Nightingale
Doo-doo-dee-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2015)