Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9
Eleven PM
C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9
My typical day
C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9 C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9
Cab ride to a club to hear some sweet jazz music play
C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9 C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9
Pick out a musician, buy him a gin
C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9 C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9
Then I take him home for a delicious night of sin
FF
Now I got a sore
F#dim7F#dim7
Down in my drawers
C/GC/G C7C7 A augmentedA
I'm nauseous and I'm feeling kinda hot
A7A7
Woo!
F7F7
A augmentedA sore throat that lingers
F#dim7F#dim7
And rashes on my fingers
D MajorD (N.C.) G+G
My mother once warned me of this illness I got
Chorus:
FF F#dim7F#dim7
I got jazz fever
C/GC/G C7C7 A augmentedA A7A7
It's the fever that you get from too much jazz
F7F7 F#dim7F#dim7
Jazz fever
D MajorD G+G
It's the fever that you get from too much jazz
C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9 C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9
I go to the doctor, say how bad I feel
C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9
He looks me up and down and says
C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9
"Jazz fever isn't real, you have syphilis."
C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9 C majorC GMaj9Gmaj9
Oh, guess they don't teach jazz in medical school
C majorC
He tells me, "Take this medicine,"
C7C7
But I ain't a fool, instead I take
Chorus:
FF F#dim7F#dim7
More ja-ya-ya-ya-yazz
C/GC/G C7C7 A augmentedA A7A7
The only cure for jazz fever is more jazz (Charleston!)
F7F7 F#dim7F#dim7
Jazz fever
D MajorD
Buzz off, penicillin
G+G
Inject me with jazz
D MajorD FaugFaug
Now I've gone deaf (from the trumpets!)
D MajorD FaugFaug
I can't feel my feet (from the dancin'!)
D MajorD FaugFaug
I'm having seizures and my back skin looks like raw meat (Can't explain that!)
D MajorD FaugFaug
The doctor keeps calling
D MajorD FaugFaug
But I've sealed my fate
D MajorD
'Cos jazz has an 80% mortality rate
Chorus:
G+G G minorGm
Jazz fever (cough)
D MajorD BB
It's the fever that you get from too much jazz (Charleston...)
G+G
Jazz fever
G6G6 A augmentedA
It's the fever that you get from
A7A7 D MajorD
too much jazz