- Style
- Jazz
- Tradition
- Jazz standard
- Form
- Verse and 20 bar chorus
- Key
- C
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Voice
In the public domain. Source
Music
The 20 bar chorus, with its pickup. Swing the eighths.
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
Shelton Brooks wrote the words and music, and Will Rossiter published the song in Chicago in 1917 before assigning it to Leo Feist the same year. Sophie Tucker put it in her vaudeville act soon after it came out, and the sheet music went on to sell more than three million copies.
The Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded it for Columbia on May 30, 1917, a few weeks after the Six Brown Brothers. The band's record entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006.