I LOVE A PIANO
(Words and Music by Irving Berlin) - 1915


4-Bar Intro

Verse 1

AS A CHILD, I WENT WILD WHEN A BAND PLAYED,
HOW I RAN TO THE MAN WHEN HIS HAND SWAYED,
CLAR-I-NETS WERE MY PETS AND A SLIDE TROM-BONE
I THOUGH WAS SIM-PLY DI-VINE.
BUT TO-DAY, WHEN THEY PLAY, I COULD HISS THEM,
EV-'RY BAR IS A JAR TO MY SYS-TEM.
BUT THERE'S ONE MUS-I-CAL IN-STRU-MENT THAT I CALL MINE;

Chorus 1

I LOVE A PIAN-O, I LOVE A PIAN-O, I LOVE TO HEAR SOME-BOD-Y
PLAY
UP-ON A PIAN-O, A GRAND PI-A-NO, IT SIM-PLY CAR-RIES ME A-
WAY
I KNOW A FINE WAY TO TREAT A STEIN-WAY,
I LOVE TO RUN MY FIN-GERS O'ER THE KEYS, THE I-VOR-IES.
AND WITH THE PED-AL, I LOVE TO MED-DLE, WHEN PAD-DA-REW-SKI COMES
THIS WAY,
I'M SO DE-LIGHT-ED, IF I'M IN-VI-TED TO HEAR A LONG-HAIRED GEN-IUS
PLAY.
SO YOU CAN KEEP YOUR FID-DLE AND YOUR BOW,
GIVE ME A P -I -A -N -O, OH, OH,
I LOVE TO STOP RIGHT BE-SIDE AN UP-RIGHT, OR A HIGH-TONED BA-BY
GRAND.

Verse 2

WHEN A GREEN TET-RA-ZINE STARTS TO WAR-BLE,
I GROW COLD AS AN OLD PIECE OF MAR-BLE,
I AL-LUDE TO THE CRUDE LIT-TLE PAR-TY SING-ER
WHO DON'T KNOW WHEN TO PAUSE
AT HER BEST I DE-TEST THE SO-PRAN-O,
BUT I RUN TO THE ONE AT THE PIAN-O.
I AL-WAYS LOVE THE AC-COMP-'NI-MENT AND THAT'S
BE-CAUSE:

Chorus 2

I LOVE A PIAN-O, I LOVE A PIAN-O, I LOVE TO HEAR SOME-BOD-Y
PLAY
UP-ON A PIAN-O, A GRAND PI-A-NO, IT SIM-PLY CAR-RIES ME A-
WAY
I KNOW A FINE WAY TO TREAT A STEIN-WAY,
I LOVE TO RUN MY FIN-GERS O'ER THE KEYS, THE I-VOR-IES.
AND WITH THE PED-AL, I LOVE TO MED-DLE, WHEN PAD-DA-REW-SKI COMES
THIS WAY,
I'M SO DE-LIGHT-ED, IF I'M IN-VI-TED TO HEAR A LONG-HAIRED
GEN-IUS PLAY.
SO YOU CAN KEEP YOUR FID-DLE AND YOUR BOW,
GIVE ME A P -I -A -N -O, OH, OH,
I LOVE TO STOP RIGHT BE-SIDE AN UP-RIGHT, OR A HIGH-TONED
BA-BY GRAND.



(Contributed by Andy & Mogg - November 2002)