Take some skins
Jazz begins
Take a bass
Steady pace
Take a box
One that rocks
Take a blue horn New Orleans-born
Take a stick
With a lick
Take a bone
Man, hold the phone
Take a spot
Cool and hot
Now you has jazz jazz jazz, jazz, jazz
Now

If you sail
Over the sea
Take my tip
They're all molto hip
In Italy
As for France
Believe it or not
Frenchmen all
Prefer what they call
Le Jazz Hot
Take a plane
Go to Siam
In Bangkok
Today, 'round the clock
They have a jam
Indians on
The Amazon
Beat one bar
And all of 'em are
Gone, man, gone
From the Equator
Up to the Pole
Through the air
You hear everywhere
Rock and roll
From the East
Out to the West
Jazz is king
'Cause jazz is the thing
Folks
Dig
Best