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Crazy Rhythm

Words by Irving Caesar, Musicby by Joseph Meyer and Roger Wolfe Kahn - 1928

A jazz standard, inspiring many jazz albums named "Crazy Rhythm"

Verse:
G               Fm	G               Fm	G               D7	G
G               Fm	G               Fm	G               D7	G
Bm	Bm7           E7	Am	D7
G               Fm	G               Fm	G               A7	Am7          D7
Chorus:
G	-	-	-
D7            Am7	D7             Am7    D7	G	-
G	-	-	-
D7            Am7	D7             Am7    D7	G	-              D7
G7            Dm7	G7             Dm7    G7	C               Dm7    G7	C
Cm	-	G	Eb+         D7
G	-	A7	-
D7	-	G	-    (D7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

I feel like the Emperor Nero when Rome was a very hot town;
Father Knickerboker forgive me I play while your city burns down.
Through all its night life I fiddle away;  It's not the right life, but think of the pay.
Someday I will bid it goodbye,  I'll put my fiddle away and I'll say:

 

Chorus:

Crazy Rhythm here's the doorway,  I'll go my way you'll go your way,
Crazy Rhythm, from now on we're through.
Here is where we have a showdown,  I'm to high hat, you're too low down,
Crazy Rhythm, here's goodbye to you.

They say that when a highbrow meets a lowbrow, walking along Broadway,
Soon the highbrow, he has no brow,  Ain't it a shame, and you're to blame.
What's the use of prohibition?  You produce the same condition.
Crazy Rhythm,  I've gone crazy too.

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Performer Links:

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Watch the WineLand Banjo Band perform "Crazy Rhythm" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com