A song from Berlin's Music Box Revue that capitalized on the dancing craze.
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Story behind the song
Copyrighted October 6, 1921. The finale of Act I, it was introduced by the Brox Sisters. Cited by the distinguished American composer John Alden Carpenter as one of the greatest works of music, the only American composition on a list that also included works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Wagner
Lyrics
Verse:
Soon, you'll hear a tune that's gonna lift you out of your seat
It could be sweeter, but then the meter was written especi'lly for your feet
Fly, away up high upon a syncopated balloon
A little ginger will never injure, hear them tuning up, they'll be playing soon
Chorus:
Ev'rybody step to the syncopated rhythm
Let's be going with 'em when they begin
You'll be saying, yes sir, the band is grand
He's the best professor in all the land
Listen to the pep that emerges from the middle of the jazzy fiddle under his chin
Oh, what music the clarineter could not be better
Hear that strain, I don't know just what it is but it's great
They simply ruin it, look at 'em doin' it, come, come don't hesitate
Ev'rybody step if you want to see a glutton when it comes to struttin' over the ground
Wait'll you see my little sweetie and me
Step, step, stepping around