Hoagy Carmichael
The Old Music Master
One night long ago by the light of the moonAn old music master sat composing a tuneHis spirit was soaring and his heart full of joyWhen right out of nowhere steppedA little colored boyYou gotta jump it, music masterYou gotta play that rhythm fasterYou're never gonna get it playedOn the Happy Cat Hit ParadeYou better tell your friend BeethovenAnd Mister Reginald De KovenThey better do the same as youOr they're gonna be corny tooLong about 1917Jazz'll come upon the sceneThen about 1935You'll begin to hear swingBoogie woogie and jiveYou gotta show that big broadcasterThat you're a solid music masterAnd you'll achieve posterityThat's a bit of advice from meLetras de cancionesThe old music masterSimply sat there amazedAs wide-eyed and open-mouthedHe gazed and he gazedHow can you be certain little boyTell me how?Because I was born, my friendA hundred years from nowHe hit a chord that rocked the spinetAnd disappeared into the infiniteAnd up until the present dayYou can take it from meHe's as right as can beEv'rything has happened that-a-way
From Letras Mania