A 1928 popular song.
Words by Irving Caesar.
Music by Joseph Meyer and Roger Wolfe Kahn.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. I feel like the Emperor Nero
When Rome was a very hot town
Father Knickerbocker, forgive me
I play while your city burns down
Through all its night life I fiddle away
It’s not the right life, but think of the pay
Someday I will bid it goodbye
I’ll put my fiddle away and I’ll say
REFRAIN:
Crazy Rhythm, here’s the doorway
I’ll go my way, you’ll go your way
Crazy Rhythm, from now on we’re through
Here is where we have a show-down
I’m too high-hat, you’re too low-down
Crazy Rhythm, here’s goodbye to you
They say that when a high-brow meets a low-brow
Walking along Broadway
Soon the high-brow, he has no brow
Ain’t it a shame, and you’re to blame
What’s the use of Prohibition?
You produce the same condition
Crazy Rhythm, I’ve gone crazy, too
2. Every Greek, each Turk and each Latin
The Russians ad Prussians as well
When they seek the lure of Manhattan
Are sure to come under your spell
Their native folks songs they soon throw away
Those Harlem smoke songs, they soon learn to play
Can’t you fall for Carnegie Hall
Oh, Danny, call it a day and we’ll say