The Jazz Man Speaks (Maple Leaf Rag)

Jazz music is based on strictly music

You have the finest ideas from the greatest operas

Symphonies and overtures in jazz music

There's nothing finer than jazz music

Because it comes from everything of the finest-class music

The fact of it is, every musician in America

Had the wrong understanding about jazz music

Somehow, nothing got into the dictionary

That jazz is considered a lot of black noises and discordant tones

And it's something that would be even harmful to the ears

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty of rhythms

When you have plenty of rhythms and plenty of swings

It becomes beautiful