The Joint Is Really Jumpin' Down

The Joint Is Really Jumpin' Down At Carnegie Hall - Judy Garland/José Iturbi

Perhaps it was something help me

Perhaps it was something I ate

But out of the blue I dreamed

I met you and you said to me 'Hi ya Gate '

Millions have heard you play Chopin

The critics applaud and approve

But millions more would simply adore

To hear you get in the groove

To hear you get in the groove

I said to hear you get in the groove

You won't believe it

You'll think it's a dream

To hear them riffing it

Right on the beam

But when you hear trumpets give out a call

You'll know

The Joint Is Really Jumpin' down at Carnegie Hall

Instead of Strauss they play Irving Berlin

Instead of Brahms it's 'Begin the Begin'

Those classic ackies are due for a fall call

The Joint Is Really Jumpin' down at Carnegie Hall

They're playing

Ta-tlee-a-ti Ta-tlee-a-ti

With Shostakovich

Ta-tlee-a-ti Ta-tlee-a-ti

Mozart and Bach

Ta-tlee-a-ti Ta-tlee-a-ti

And they don't know which

'Cause anything can happen when they start to rock

The philharmonic was so dignified

But now they're groovy and starting to ride

Handel and Haydn are facing the wall

'Cause The Joint Is Really

Jumpin' down in Carnegie Hall

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Do do do lu do do

Do do do lu do do

They-hey swing everything with a ding dong

And when the Maestro gives them a beat

It's aReet Beat that starts 'em to toot with a

Root Toot that's a bit of alright

And even Jose Iturbi getting hep

He's hep he's hep Boy

Tschai-Tschai-Tschai-kovsky would really be hurt

To hear 'em jivin' his Piano Concert

Beethoven's lucky he can't hear at all

Because the Joint Is Really

Jumpin'

The Joint Is Really

Jumpin'

The Joint Is Really

Jumpin' down at Carnegie Hall