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Artist/Band: Ella Fitzgerald
Lyrics for Song: The Real American Folk Song
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Ella Fitzgerald



Near Barcelona, the peasant crooned

The old traditional Spanish tunes

The Neapolitan street song sighs

You think of Italian skies



Each nation has a creative vein

Originating a native strain

With folk songs plaintive and others gay

In their own peculiar way



American folk songs, I feel

Have a much stronger appeal



The real American folksong is a rag, a mental jag

A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues

The critics called it a 'Joke Song'

But now they've changed their tune and they like it, somehow



For it's inoculated with a syncopated sort of meter

Sweeter than a classic strain, boy you can't remain still and quiet

For it's a riot



The real American folksong is like a fountain of youth

You taste and it elates you and then invigorates you

The real American folksong, the masses coaxed on, is a rag



The real American folksong is a rag, a mental jag

A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues

The critics called it a 'Joke Song'

But now they've changed their tune and they like it, somehow



For it's inoculated with a syncopated sort of meter

Sweeter than a classic strain, boy you can't remain still and quiet

For it's a riot



The real American folksong is like a fountain of youth

You taste and it elates you and then invigorates you

The real American folksong is a rag


Napaca.