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The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Near Barcelona the peasant crooned
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The old traditional Spanish tunes
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The Neapolitan street song sighs
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You think of Italian skies
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Each nation has a creative vein
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Originating a native strain
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With folk songs plaintive and others gay
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In their own peculiar way
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American folk songs, I feel
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Have a much stronger appeal
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The real American folksong is a rag
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A mental jag
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A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues
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The critics called it a "joke song," but now
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They've changed their tune, and they like it, somehow
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For it's inoculated with a syncopated sort of meter, sweeter
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Than a classic strain; boy, you can't remain still or quiet, for it's a riot
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The real American folksong
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Is like a fountain of youth
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You taste, and it elates you and then invigorates you
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The real American folksong, the masses coaxed on, is a rag
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The real American folksong is a rag
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A mental jag
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A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues
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The critics called it a "joke song" but now
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They've changed their tune, and they like it, somehow
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For it's inoculated with a syncopated sort of meter, sweeter
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Than a classic strain; boy, you can't remain still or quiet, for it's a riot
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The real American folksong
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Is like a fountain of youth
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You taste, and it elates you and then invigorates you
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The real American folksong is a rag
The Real American Folk Song
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