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Henry was a good boy from Georgia His mama thought he could lose some weight Now his mama's creative She went to the music store And brought home a stand up bass He carried that bass everywhere that he'd go Started to study the greats Snuck home some Charles Mingus records one night Blew his young mind clean away He got a pork pie hat just like Mingus Stole some of those little cigars Carried that bass to school every day Smoked cigars in the school yard Startеd savin' his lunch money Set aside somе every day Said he was gonna buy an airline ticket And fly off to Europe and play He'd play for the cultured folks out there The kind that wore scarves and berets Some high-minded people who smoke little cigarettes And drink little coffees all day Letras de cancionesThat's until his mother came home one afternoon Found his money, found his cigars Took all those Charles Mingus records outside Ran em over Just crushed em She made him to eat boiled cod every night No TV, certainly no books Sent him away to a military school Turned his bedroom into an office Henry got to marchin' Pushin' up, pullin' up Blowin' on bugles all day He never heard no Charles Mingus again And Lord knows he lost more than weight From Letras Mania