Dear gentlefolk of Newport
Or maybe I should say "hats" and "cats"?
I want you to lend an ear
Because, well, I want you to hear
Some really shimmerin' sharps and flats

For these cosy virtuosi
Just abou the greatest in the trade
Are fixin' to show you now
Precisely how
Or approximately
Jazz music is made

Well, you take some skins
Jazz begins
Then you take a bass
Man, now we're gettin' someplace
Take a box
One that rocks
Take a blue horn New Orleans-born

Aah
You take a stick
With a lick
Take a bone
Ho-ho, hold the phone
Take a spot
Cool and hot
Now you has jazz, jazz
Jazz, jazz, jazz!

Le tout ensemble
Ah, that's positively
Therapeutic

Now you has jazz, jazz, jazz
Messrs, Hall and Young
Ah said Hall and Tommy Young

Now you has Messrs Kyle and Shaw
That's Billy Kyle, Arvel Shaw
Now you has Mr. Barret Deans
Well, listen to, well, you know who

Say hey pops, you wanna grab a little of what's left here?
Yeah, daddy, yeah, here we go
If you sail a-sailin', sailin' over the sea
When you wait for me
Take my tip, they're all molto hip in Italy

Well, arrivederci as for France
Oh, I know you're very big there
Yes, believe it or not, I do believe, I do indeed
The Frenchmen's all, prefer what they call 'Le jazz hot'

Take a plane, go to Siam
In Bangkok today 'round the clock
Well, they all like to jam
Indians on the Amazon
Beat one bar and all of 'em are
Ah well, gone, man, gone

Ah, from the equator up to the pole
Everybody wingin', everybody singin'
That rock, rock, rock, rock, rock and roll
From the east to the west
From the coast to the coast jazz is king
Jazz is the thing that folks
dig
most!

Now that's jazz