Luyện nghe bài hát He Was The Cat (A Tribute to Eddie Jefferson)

There was a fellow named who
Would it up with the band
A vocalizin phenomenon who used to call the Main Man
He think like a sage, sing like a horn
And there on the stage somethin special was
He swing, dit n doo dat
He was The Cat.
He sang with in 57
He put a to bop
When little Benny down from Heaven
He put it the top
was hot in the East, cool in the West
But his vocalese it was simply the
Because man, he scat
He was The Cat.
was hip but wise as an old man
Takin that trip to celebrate
it rip on Body and Soul man
And oh hed do, the poetry flew
A founding was Jefferson but
He never got the
Were here to tell you hes the one that
Put in the game
He would dig sittin in, the hit
And then he spin out a story to fit
He was some
He was The Cat.
There was a time when there was cookin up on every corner
Everybody would sit and listen as blew
stories they knew in each his own way
Tellin the news, bop to
Set the moods any way want to
was always there
Electrifyin the air everywhere youd be, let me ya
All around youd hear the sound of life free
out of a horn, bein born a new way
Never knew what youd
First we from The Bean
Then the on the scene was so choice:
Eddie Jeffersons voice, what a beautiful
of a lyric and what an inventor
Singin with the of jazz at the center
Anyone hear it knew that he was a mentor
for the love the sound
You found the rhythm where you can marry vocabulary
To melody that you hear
For when would sing, the story was king
Hed about a thing, then be sockin it like the swing of a bat
He it like that!
He would embrace his zen to
Tickle phrases like he was meant to
Take us to places nobodyd to
An Everest climb, the kind!
When Parker and Moody played it
was a hush in the crowd
And then when would elevate it
The jazz bowed
Hed evoke what we heard on the soloin
And make word tell a story besides
And all tippin our hat!
He Was The Cat.