Tonalité : C# minor
Intro 1
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Edim
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Edim
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Verse 1
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Don't you know,
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he was the king of saxophones
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Yes indeed he was
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Talkin' 'bout the guy that made it
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sound so good
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Some people knew him by the Bean
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But Hawkins was his name
Verse 2
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He sure could swing and
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play pretty too
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Sounds good to me,
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should sound good to you
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I love to hear him playing Body and Soul
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Very pleasing to the ear
Verse 3
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When I first heard it on the record
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I just stopped right there,
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Sounded like a band of angels
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in the sky,
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And I have never ever
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heard a sweeter tone
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I fact I pay no 'ttention to the
saxophone
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'Til Coleman Hawkins came
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along and spoke to everyone
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Say ing better listen
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won't you hear me,
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While I play for you
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Sometimes it's
Verse 4
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hot
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Then again it's blue
My soul just seems to wander,
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Pleasing each and everyone
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It's what I've long been craving for
Verse 5
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The doors have not been always open,
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But I am trying to please you.
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Please don't stop me.
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Hope you like it folks
Verse 6
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And then he started cookin'
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Every time he played
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Some melodic melody fast or slow
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You could tell that it was Hawkins
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No other
Verse 7
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one ever has
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Quite captured his tone
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Just he alone
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Has the sound that penet rates
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It will sure go right through you
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Yes it will
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And every chorus gives
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you just another thrill
Verse 8
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Then along came Eddie Jefferson
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He sang the melody like Hawkins played it
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He sang it true
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He sang it blue
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Made words for it too
Verse 9
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All his fans in New York loved him
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There's no one above him
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Here in the USA
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I've heard 'em say ol'
Verse 10
Eddie was the man
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Oh how he could sing
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Man did he swing
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Sang on the wing, did his own thing
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Yes he did
Verse 11
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Throughout the country
Music lovers are still wiggin'
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on Eddie's singin'
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All around the world he
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is known
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Rhythm was his special joy
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He swung it like a horn
Verse 12
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He must have been born
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to be a singer
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'Cause his lyrics were so
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sincere and true
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Funny sad or blue
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Oh yeah!
Verse 13
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And we've got to remind you
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Many years it took him
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Singing every day to achieve
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his first claim to fame
Verse 14
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He was twenty years ahead of his time
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And he knew it
But he kept right on-a singing
singing
He went all around the world
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making rhythm
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'Cause music sure was in
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him and he knew it was
Verse 15
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Sang with Moody and Richie Cole
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He could sing it just like Bird
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But his forte was the
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words he wrote to
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Music that he sang
Verse 16
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So he sang, and he sang
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And he sang his words so clever
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And I know they'll silence him never
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'Cause he cut this masterpiece
Verse 17
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And now we're try ing
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to sing it for you
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Hope the Bean and Eddie
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both would still approve
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There we go
We didn't mean to reminisce
You can surely bet
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That we won't forget
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'Cause we hear them yet
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Goodbye
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