Les Amis de La Musique

All the music friends
From the serious to the eccentric
Have come to the back of my yard
With a 78 record from another era to say hello

No more visits I have
Except for a few old eccentrics
Who come to talk about the past
Whine about my instruments
As if the forgotten youth
Didn't have a good time

I am the jazz of 1925
And make tunes sing for us to toast
Eleonore has become a grandmother
Could not even take
A few steps to please you

The old jazz brings back its trombone
Towards the skin of a banjo that sounds
1925 trips over a stuffy gramophone
That flutters and wheezes and...

All the ragtime lovers
Have looked for a rhyme with 'ouch'
1925 has left for modern jazz
and yet when the trombone blares
We are still amazed

I am the jazz of 1925
And make tunes sing for us to toast
Eleonore has become a grandmother
Could not even take
A few steps to please you

All the music friends
From the serious to the eccentric
Happy to have pleased the old ones
Have left for other places
Taking from that time
The proof that it does not age
The proof that it does not age
The proof that it does not age
The proof that it does not age
The proof that it does not age