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

There was a fellow Jefferson who
Would it up with the band
A vocalizin phenomenon who they used to call the Man
He would think a sage, sing like a horn
And there on the somethin special was born
He swing, dit n doo dat
He was The Cat.
He with Moody in 57
He put a to bop
When Benny came down from Heaven
He put it the top
Jazz was hot in the East, cool in the
But his it was simply the best
man, couldnt he scat
He was The Cat.
Eddie was hip but as an old man
that trip to celebrate Coleman
Lettin it rip on Body and man
And oh what hed do, the poetry
A founding father was but
He got the acclaim
Were here to you that hes the one that
Put vocalese in the
He dig sittin in, blowin the hit
And then he spin out a story to fit
He was acrobat
He was The Cat.
There was a time when there was jazz cookin up on corner
Everybody would sit and as they blew
Tellin stories they knew in his own way
the news, bop to blues
Set the moods any way want to
was always there
Electrifyin the air youd be, let me tell ya
All around youd hear the sound of life free
Comin out of a horn, bein a new way
Never knew youd hear
First we heard from The
Then the word on the was so choice:
Eddie Jeffersons voice, what a noise
of a lyric and what an inventor
Singin with the of jazz at the center
Anyone whod it knew that he was a mentor
for the love the sound
You found the town where you can marry vocabulary
To every melody that you
For when Eddie would sing, the was king
Hed talk about a thing, be sockin it like the swing of a bat
He sang it that!
He would embrace his zen to
those phrases like he was meant to
Take us to places been to
An climb, the cleverest kind!
When Charlie and Moody played it
There was a in the crowd
And then when Eddie would it
The community bowed
Hed evoke what we heard on the rides
And every word tell a story besides
And were all our hat!
He Was The Cat.