There's An Old Lady Sick Upstairs

Old Joke: To loud musician: "Do you know there's an old lady sick upstairs?" "No, but if you hum a few bars, I'll try to fake it."

There's an old lady sick upstairs
that's what her neighbors said
they just want to keep her calm
keep noise from out her head
so keep those guitars strumming low
keep those horns on muted blow
they don't know the old lady wants
some music as she goes

Traveling on, with a song
that is the old lady's dream
she wants to hear those notes drift up
around the ceiling beam
she wants to dance in her memory
to Benny Goodman and Count Basie
they don't know the old lady wants
some music as she goes

She used to dance the rumba
she used to trot the fox
she used to swing on the old gym floor
in her bobby sox
she has not been forever old
she still knows words to the songs of gold
they don't know the old lady wants
some music as she goes

Traveling on, with a song
that is the old lady's dream
she wants to hear those notes drift up
around the ceiling beam
she wants to dance in her memory
to Benny Goodman and Count Basie
they don't know the old lady wants
some music as she goes

So we turn the sound down as we play
but we point them up the old lady's way
we let them curl up like a dream
those notes that follow the ceiling beam
the songs that flow through her memory
the songs that soften her reverie
the songs of Goodman and Count Basie
so she'll have music as she goes

Traveling on, with a song
that is the old lady's dream
she wants to hear those notes drift up
around the ceiling beam
she wants to dance in her memory
to Benny Goodman and Count Basie
they don't know the old lady wants
some music as she goes...