A popular song from 1936.
Words and music by Clive Erard.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
There’s a guy way up in Harlem
Who is known to ev’ryone
And his father’s name was Mendel
So they called him Mendel’s Son
For he plays that old pianer
In a certain kind of manner
And the people stay till break of day
As he swings the hours away
Chorus
At a high brow kind of sing song
You have heard the famous Spring-song
Did you ever life your feet
To Mendel’s Son’s Swing Song?
There is so much rhythm in it
That you can’t stop for a minute
When you hear the low down beat
Of Mendel’s Son’s Swing Song
First you feel it in your ankles
As it creeps up to your knees
Then it gets you in the shoulders
And you start to swing with ease
You get hot beneath the collar
And you want to stamp and holler
It’s a treat to lift your feet
To Mendel’s Son’s Swing Song
Sung here by Vancha March: