Key: Bb major
Verse 1
is that wonderful new singer
with Count Basie's big band.
She made her record debut back
in 1929
with James P. Johnson at the piano
on OK.
Tonight I got the idea of teaming her
with a small band
with Count Basie on piano,
Lester Young switching over to clarinet,
Buck Clayton on trumpet,
Joe Jones on drums,
and Walter Page on bass.
Helen's going to sing the blues,
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very young.
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Better than I love myself
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And if he won't have me
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He won't have nobody else
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Why, I went up on a mountain
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Looked down as far as I could see
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I went up on the mountain,
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looked down as far as I could see
All the women had my man,
Interlude 1
all the blues had me
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Why,
Verse 2
you can take my man,
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but you sure can't keep him long
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Oh, you can take my man,
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you sure can 't keep him long
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I've got that old way of lovin'
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the other women can't catch up
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Why, I'm a big fat mama
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with the meat shakin' on my bones
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with the meat shakin' on my bone
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Why, every time I shake it,
some skinny woman loses her bone
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