All That Jazz

Album: Chicago (1975)
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  • [Broadway Version]

    [Velma]
    Come on, Babe
    Why don't we paint the town?
    And All That Jazz

    I'm gonna rouge my knees
    And roll my stockings down
    And All That Jazz.

    Start the car
    I know a whoopee spot
    Where the gin is cold
    but the piano's hot
    It's just a noisy hall
    Where there's a nightly brawl
    And All
    That
    Jazz!

    Slick your hair
    And wear your buckle shoes
    And All That Jazz!

    I hear that father dip
    Is gonna blow the blues
    And All That Jazz

    Hold on, hon
    We're gonna bunny hug
    I bought some Aspirin
    Down at United Drug

    In case you shake apart
    And want a brand-new start
    To do that -

    [Velma and Company]
    Jazz!

    [Company]
    Skidoo!

    [Velma]
    And All That Jazz

    [Company]
    Hotcha!
    Whoopee!

    [Velma]
    And All That Jazz

    [Company]
    Hah! Hah! Hah!

    [Velma]
    It's just a noisy hall
    Where there's a nightly brawl

    [All]
    And all that Jazz

    (Fred Casely and Roxie Hart enter)

    [Fred]
    Listen, your husband ain't home, is he?

    [Velma]
    No, her husband is not at home!
    Find a flask
    We're playing fast and loose

    [Company]
    And All That Jazz!

    [Velma]
    Right up here
    Is where I store the juice

    [Company]
    And All That Jazz!

    [Velma]
    Come on babe
    We're gonna brush the sky
    I bet you lucky Lindy
    Never flew so high
    'Cause in the stratosphere
    How could he lend an ear
    To All That Jazz

    [Company]
    Oh, you're gonna see her sheba shimmy shake

    [Velma]
    And All That Jazz!

    [Company]
    Oh, she's gonna shimmy till her garters break

    [Velma]
    And All That Jazz

    [Company]
    Show her where to park her girdle
    Oh, her mother's blood is curdle
    If she'd hear
    Her baby's queer
    For All That Jazz!

    [Velma and Company]
    And All That Jazz!
    Come on, Babe Oh, you're gonna see
    Why don't we paint Your
    The town? Sheba
    And All That Jazz Shimmy shake
    And All That Jazz!

    I'm gonna Oh,
    Rouge my knees She's gonna shimmy
    And roll my 'Till her garters
    Stockings down Break
    And All That Jazz And All That Jazz

    Start the car Show her where to
    I know a whoopee spot Park her girdle
    Where the gin is cold Oh, her mother's blood'd
    But the piano's hot. Curdle
    It's just a noisy hall If she'd hear
    Where there's a nightly brawl Her baby's queer
    And All That Jazz! For All That Jazz!

    [Roxie]
    So, that's it, huh Fred?

    [Fred]
    Yeah, I'm afraid so Roxie.

    [Roxie]
    Oh, Fred...

    [Girls]
    Oh, Fred...

    [Fred]
    Yeah?

    [Roxie]
    Nobody walks out on me.

    (Roxie shoots him.)

    [Fred]
    Sweetheart

    [Roxie]
    Oh, don't "sweetheart" me, you son-of-a-bitch!

    (Roxie shoots him again. Fred dies.)

    [Company]
    Hotcha!
    Whoopee!
    Jazz!

    [Roxie]
    Oh, I gotta pee.

    (Roxie exits.)

    [Velma]
    No, I'm no one's wife
    But, oh, I love my life
    And All That Jazz!

    [Company]
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Comments: 1

  • Oscar Lanzi from Chicago, IlAfter the second set of four lines several sources have the piano player saying "Skidoo" (meaning "you need to leave"). But it sounds to me like he is actually aaying "Excuse me" (I do not hear the consonant "d" and faintly hear a syllable after thecstressed one with a consonant "m"), as if trying to get Velma's attention. Presumably he wants to know why Velma is performing solo when he has just announced otherwise — or, perhaps, he has spotted police entering the club and wants to warn her. What say you after listening closely?
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