Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Blakey and the Boys

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE



Blakey And The Boys
(A Personal Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers) 




Blakey and the boys,
They could really bring the house down,

Blakey and the boys,
They could make you swing and sway.

Blakey and the boys,
Smokers from a different era,

Blakey and the boys,
Only they could play their way.
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Freddie, shorter, Curtis, and  Cedar Walton,
Jymie Merritt thumpin' his bass and steppin’,
Blakey and the boys could really swing.
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Blakey and the boys,
They could really bring the house down.

Blakey and the boys,
The brothers sure could play.

Blakey and the boys,
They brought 'Along Came Betty.'

Blakey and the boys,
Nothin' like 'em 'round today.
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Morgan, Benny Golson, and Bobby Timmons,
And Blakey with his sweet stix a swingin’,
Blakey and the boys, could do their thing.
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.
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