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Waring Cuney, "Jazz Band" (1929)

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Wild exotic music fills the air,
A jazz band plays a loud free prayer.

Beat your drum, drummer boy!
Beat in the slow dawn of day.
This is an hour of joy,
When restless weary souls pray!
Mad symphonic rhythm fills the air,
Ten jazz men bow their heads in prayer.

Published in Saturday Evening Quill, 1929

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