Transcribed from Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds
of Joy, vocal by Harry Mills, recorded December 9, 1936.
From Andy
Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy, 1936-1937, Chronological Classics vol.
573.
It was just a normal street
Till it got that off-time beat;
Now it's a place where the swing
cats meet,
Fifty-Second Street!
It's an endless whoooh,
Where the torrid trumpets blow,
It's quite a thing when you're
feeling low,
Fifty-second Street!
Debutants arrive there and start
rockin',
Make it their rendevous,
Though their swing is absolutely
shocking,
The mamas ain't blue because the
mamas swing, too!
It's a world set apart,
It's where swinging got its start;
It's like the beat of a swingin'
heart:
Two blocks from Fifty,
You'll find the lifty
Fifty-Second Street!
It's a world that's set apart,
It's where swinging got its start;
Not ten, twenty, thirty, forty,
Fifty-Second Street!
La-la-oh-oh!
Published 10/2/99.
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