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

There was a named Jefferson who
Would tear it up with the
A vocalizin phenomenon who they to call the Main Man
He would think like a sage, like a horn
And there on the somethin special was born
He swing, dit n doo dat
He was The Cat.
He sang Moody in 57
He put a to bop
When little Benny came from Heaven
He put it the top
was hot in the East, cool in the West
But his vocalese it was the best
Because man, couldnt he
He was The Cat.
was hip but wise as an old man
Takin that to celebrate Coleman
Lettin it rip on Body and man
And oh what hed do, the flew
A founding father was but
He got the acclaim
Were here to tell you that hes the one
Put vocalese in the
He would dig sittin in, the hit
And he would spin out a story to fit
He was some
He was The Cat.
There was a when there was jazz cookin up on every corner
Everybody would sit and as they blew
stories they knew in each his own way
Tellin the news, bop to
Set the any way theyd want to
was always there
Electrifyin the air youd be, let me tell ya
All around youd the sound of life abounding free
Comin out of a horn, born a new way
Never knew what hear
First we from The Bean
Then the on the scene was so choice:
Eddie Jeffersons voice, what a noise
of a lyric and what an inventor
Singin with the spirit of jazz at the
Anyone whod hear it knew that he was a
Enter for the the sound
You found the rhythm town where you can vocabulary
To every melody you hear
For when Eddie would sing, the was king
Hed talk about a thing, then be it like the swing of a bat
He sang it that!
He embrace his lyrical zen to
Tickle those phrases he was meant to
us to places nobodyd been to
An Everest climb, the kind!
When Charlie Parker and Moody it
There was a hush in the
And then when would elevate it
The community bowed
Hed what we heard on the soloin rides
And make every word a story besides
And were all our hat!
He Was The Cat.