That's How You Jazz

This dive ain't Chicago
Where's Bathsheba?
Well now, Jack, before we hit the big time
Just wanna make sure I still got the touch

I'll show you how to play
Black folks down a New Orleans way
Show you the stylish fingers they have
Ooh! What a noise they make
Stomp till the windows shake
Start mixin'
Come on and get your licks in
Ooh, ooh, ooh, that's how you jazz

Now, in order to get goin' on what I like to call
Sweet Papa Jelly's Jazz
I need a low-down foundation
Can you help me?
That's it
Foot in your ass
Good!
Can I get some synca-syncopation?
That's it
How 'bout some bluesy variation?
I like it!
Y'all can leave the melody to me

Take Buddy Bolden's blues
Some Creole curliques
Add some street-rat razzamatazz
That tune struts-struts along
Just like it owns a song
Then you hit it with a
That's how you jazz
And now the tune is goin'
(Ooh, Daddy, sing to me)
Give me some good chorus
(Don't mean a thing to me)
Water don't come wetter
Piano men don't come better
Come on, let's jazz!

That's how you jazz!

Let's jazz!

Go 'head, Jelly Roll
That's how you jazz
Would you look at that?
That's jazz!

I think I'm gonna need someone to help me out now
Don't be shy
Come on in, now, come on

Jazz
That's it
Jazz
Don't be shy
Jazz

Come on!
Jazz
That's it, baby
Jazz
Jazz
Jazz
Jazz
Jazz

Come on!

And now the tune is goin'
The wah-wah is showin'
Water don't come wetter
Piano men don't come better
Ooh, ooh, ooh
That's how you jazz

And now the tune is goin'
The wah-wah is goin'
All right now, taste it
That's it. That's it!

And now the tune is goin'
Ooh Daddy, sing to me
Give me some oomph or it don't mean a thing to me
Water don't come wetter
Piano men don't come better
Ooh, ooh, ooh
That's how you jazz
Ooh, ooh, ooh
That's how you jazz
Ooh, ooh, ooh
That's how you jazz
Jazz
Jazz
That's how you jazz

Jazz
Jazz
A brown-skinned gal in a Sunday dress
Was inside of Jelly's song
Sittin' down to a meal by your mama
After bein' gone too long from home
Was inside of Jelly's song
Standin' on some open road
Not knowing where you're going
But knowing it's got to be better than the pain you're leaving behind
Was inside of Jelly's song (Jazz)
Oh, head high (Jazz)
A feel good (Jazz)
A struttin' low kind of song (Jazz)
A high life or a low life (Jazz)
You still gotta live life, kinda song (Jazz)
And everywhere we went (Jazz)
Folks claimed us as their own
And Jelly's music was like Moses
Partin' water
Paving the way
For Chicago
The Rooftop Garden, Chicago's senior supper club
Proudly presents
Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers!