Dipper Mouth chords by Louis Armstrong
Verse 1
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Folks,
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if you're ready to join me,
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I'd like to do a little reminiscence.
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I want to take you back
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to some of the places
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where my kind of music really began,
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and I'll talk a while
about some of the people
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that made the music.
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But most of all,
I want to bring back the music
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just the way it was played
in those good old days.
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And of course, we are starting down
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in my hometown, New Orleans.
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My man in those days
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was old Papa Joe Oliver.
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He was my friend and my teacher
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and my inspiration and a great creator.
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We're going to start out with a number
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that goes back to the King Oliver Band,
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and I was playing second garnet
for Papa Joe
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when we made the first version
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of this one in 1923.
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We call this the Dip -a -Mouth Blues,
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one of my old nicknames.
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Some folks call it the Sugarfoot Stomp.
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No matter which way you call it,
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it still brings back a lot of memories.
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