When You And I Were Young Maggie Blues

Now I've been requested to sing an old time song

Something our granddaddies used to sing

I'm afraid I would make that old ditty sound all wrong

'Cause I'd fill it with blues and everything

But I've a little plan and I'll do the best I can

To sing an old song so we all can understand

You simply take a favorite and then you flavor it

With just a note or two of blue harmony

Tell the orchestra to play staccato

And then you jazz a little obbligato

Now the Maggie tune is a raggy tune

Pay no attention to the music that they play

But just rock, rock, rock your blues away

On the spot, start to sway, getting hot now

Hear that broken time, if just spoken time

All around me I see harmony, charming me

Every loving note is a loving note

Just full of music that you can't refuse

Now you know the way, tell the band to play

And when you listen, babe, just listen and say

I got those when you and I were young Maggie Blues

Hmm, hmm, from the hill, Maggie, where first the daisies grow

Ba ba ba do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do

Simply take a favorite and then you flavor it

With just a note or two of blue harmony

Tell the orchestra to play staccato

And then you jazz a little obbligato

Now the Maggie tune is a raggy tune

Pay no attention to the music that they play

Just rock, rock, rock your blues away

On the spot, start to sway, getting hot now

Hear that broken time, if just spoken time

All around me I see harmony, charming me

Every loving note is a loving note

Full of music that you can't refuse

Now you know the way, tell the band to play

When you listen, babe, listen and say

I got those when you and I were young Maggie Blues