Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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Em
G
C
Stop, while I
tell the story about
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James
Moody.
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C#m
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D
Em
He's on, he got in a ses sion,
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Em
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E
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and he really blowed his top, he just couldn't stop, boy.
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When he started blowin' everybody stood right up in their seats,
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E
cause he was really crazy.
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Em
C
And the whole house was swingin' and swayin',
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Em
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cause they knew what he was tryin' to say,
C#m
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Em
A
Every body got deep down in the groove and
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D
started riding and the rhythm was flying
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Bb
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I know cause I heard
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Yes, I was there when
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Em
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Rudy took his horn and started to blow
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Am
D
Boy, he blowed
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Good
New
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York
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D
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Just to be back in the city
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ones I wanted to be with
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E
Em
found right here in the city
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I first picked up my horn and I got a
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cab and went straight down to
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Birdland
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A
The first one that I met there was
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Charlie
Em
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D
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He was standing at the bar with dicks
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Am
Hav ing a little taste,
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D
The rhythm section hadn't come in
But
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D
playing and everybody said
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He was puttin' in such a
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groovy feelin' and I know it
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Ray
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Edim
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Shadow were keep
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in' the rhythm
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D
And it sounded mighty pretty
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Am
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Am
swingin'
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Somebody screamed,
James
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E
Moody has really got to blow now
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C
Moody went and picked
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G
D
And nobody made a sound
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looked round and said
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Go ahead and blow it, swing it,
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Moody
Em
C
Em
You've got the feeling that I had
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C
Am
when I was young and a gay
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Tell the folks just what you've
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got to say
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C
Then the houses started rockin'
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C
when the yard stood up
And took a couple choruses
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Dm
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he wigged me
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C
He was blowin', blowin',
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D
Bb
C#
And he sounded mighty pretty
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D
Em
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You'll never know the feeling
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I had way deep down inside
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G
D
Em
of course unless you were there it was a saturday
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night i'll never forget cause that's feeling real
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D
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Gm
good going going going way to the top of the sky they're
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really shopping there can't be no doubt
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about it they will leave you in a groove hey
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