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

There was a named Jefferson who
Would it up with the band
A vocalizin phenomenon who they used to the Main Man
He would think like a sage, sing like a
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 down Heaven
He put it the top
Jazz was hot in the East, cool in the
But his vocalese it was simply the
Because man, couldnt he
He was The Cat.
was hip but wise as an old man
Takin that to celebrate Coleman
it rip on Body and Soul man
And oh what hed do, the poetry
A founding father was but
He got the acclaim
Were to tell you that hes the one that
Put in the game
He would dig sittin in, the hit
And he would spin out a story to fit
He was acrobat
He was The Cat.
There was a time when was jazz cookin up on every corner
Everybody would sit and listen as blew
Tellin stories they in each his own way
Tellin the news, bop to
Set the any way theyd want to
Innovation was always
Electrifyin the air youd be, let me tell ya
All around hear the sound of life abounding free
Comin out of a horn, bein a new way
Never knew what youd
we heard from The Bean
Then the on the scene was so choice:
Eddie Jeffersons voice, what a beautiful
Master of a lyric and what an
with the spirit of jazz at the center
Anyone whod hear it that he was a mentor
for the love the sound
You found the town where you can marry vocabulary
To every that you hear
For when Eddie would sing, the story was
Hed talk about a thing, be sockin it like the swing of a bat
He sang it that!
He would his lyrical zen to
Tickle phrases like he was meant to
us to places nobodyd been to
An climb, the cleverest kind!
When Charlie Parker and Moody it
There was a in the crowd
And when Eddie would elevate it
The jazz 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.