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

There was a fellow Jefferson who
Would tear it up the band
A vocalizin who they used to call the Main Man
He would like a sage, sing like a horn
And there on the stage somethin was born
He swing, dit n doo dat
He was The Cat.
He sang with in 57
He put a to bop
When little came down 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 trip to celebrate
Lettin it rip on and Soul man
And oh hed do, the poetry flew
A father was Jefferson 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 would spin out a to fit
He was acrobat
He was The Cat.
There was a time when there was jazz up on every corner
Everybody would sit and listen as blew
Tellin stories knew in each his own way
Tellin the news, bop to
Set the moods any way theyd to
Innovation was there
Electrifyin the air youd be, let me tell ya
All youd hear the sound of life abounding free
Comin out of a horn, born a new way
Never what youd hear
we heard from The Bean
Then the word on the scene was so
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 love the
You found the town where you can marry vocabulary
To every melody you hear
For when Eddie sing, the story was king
Hed talk about a thing, then be sockin it the swing of a bat
He it like that!
He would his lyrical zen to
Tickle those phrases he was meant to
Take us to places been to
An Everest climb, the kind!
When Charlie and Moody played it
There was a in the crowd
And when Eddie would elevate it
The community bowed
Hed evoke what we heard on the soloin
And make every word a story besides
And all tippin our hat!
He Was The Cat.