| AND WITH THE PEDAL, I LOVE TO MEDDLE, WHEN PADAREWSKI COMES THIS WAY I'M SO DELIGHTED, IF I'M INVITED TO HEAR A LONG-HAIRED GENIUS PLAY. SO YOU CAN KEEP YOUR FIDDLE AND YOUR BOW GIVE ME A P -I -A -N -O, OH, OH, OH, I LOVE TO STOP RIGHT BESIDE AN UPRIGHT, OR A HIGH-TONED BABY GRAND! When a GREEN TETRAZINE starts to warble I grow cold as an old piece of marble I allude to the crude little party singers Who don't know when to pause At her best, I DETEST the soprano BUT I run to the one AT THE PIANO! I always love the accomp'niment, and that's because: I LOVE A PIANO! I LOVE A PIANO! I LOVE TO HEAR SOMEBODY PLAY! UPON A PIANO, A GRAND PIANO,IT SIMPLY CARRIES ME AWAY! I KNOW A FINE WAY TO TREAT A STEINWAY! I LOVE TO RUN MY FINGERS O'ER THE KEYS, THE IVORIES. AND WITH THE PEDAL, I LOVE TO MEDDLE, WHEN PADAREWSKI COMES THIS WAY I'M SO DELIGHTED, IF I'M INVITED TO HEAR A LONG-HAIRED GENIUS PLAY. SO YOU CAN KEEP YOUR FIDDLE AND YOUR BOW GIVE ME A P -I -A -N -O, OH, OH, OH, I LOVE TO STOP RIGHT BESIDE AN UPRIGHT, OR A HIGH-TONED BABY GRAND! |
| ::I Love A Piano:: Words and Music By Irving Berlin As a child, I went wild when a band played How I ran to the man when his hand swayed! CLARINETS WERE MY PETS AND A SLIDE TROMBONE I thought was simply DIVINE ! But today, when they play, I could HISS them! Ev'ry bar is a jar to my system ! BUT there's ONE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT that I call MINE: I LOVE A PIANO! I LOVE A PIANO! I LOVE TO HEAR SOMEBODY PLAY! UPON A PIANO, A GRAND PIANO, IT SIMPLY CARRIES ME AWAY! I KNOW A FINE WAY TO TREAT A STEINWAY I LOVE TO RUN MY FINGERS O'ER THE KEYS, THE IVORIES! |