Coleman Hawkins And Henderson chords by Lester Young

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Verse 1
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Did you always play the way you did,
Em 
or did your...
I mean, Coleman Hawkins
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was the tenor sax man then,
in those days.
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B 
Yeah, well I had a lot of trouble
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along those days,
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because the people couldn't understand the way I sound,
and they wanted me to play like Coleman Hawkins,
you know, to each his own, you know.
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Things like that, so I played in a band,
and there was about three
Three boys from the west,
they fired the trombone player,
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a great big envelope,
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and they fired the trumpet  player.
He was going, well I'm the third party,
I know they're going to fire me too,
you dig?
We were all from Kansas City
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C 
you know. We came to New York,
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D 
so we wasn't in
the New York clique
Em 
you know. So  that made the difference,
E 
so I went to him and asked him
Em 
could I get a recommendation
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so I could split and go back home you know.
Em 
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So  he did, and I went back
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and then I started  playing with Andy Kirk.
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Em 
E 
But you replaced Hawkins,
didn't you,
in the Fletch Anderson band?
Em 
Yes, I did. Wasn't it pretty tough
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for you to replace him
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when everybody was so used
to the Hawkins style?
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C 
Oh yeah, I caught all kind of trouble,
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you know, like that, because most of the people
would come out to hear him
and see me up there and
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listen to the way I sound,
you know, and they're looking
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for him.
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I think he was in Switzerland or Sweden,
something like that.