《Goodbye Pork Pie Hat》歌词

[00:00:00] Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Lyambiko

[00:00:18] When Charlie speaks of Lester

[00:00:22] You know someone great has gone

[00:00:26] The sweetest swinging music man

[00:00:31] Had a Porkie Pig hat on

[00:00:34] A bright star

[00:00:36] In a dark age

[00:00:38] When the bandstands had a thousand ways

[00:00:42] Of refusing a black man admission

[00:00:50] Black musicion

[00:00:53] In those days they put him in an

[00:00:58] Underdog position

[00:01:05] Cellars and chittlins'

[00:01:07] When Lester took him a wife

[00:01:12] Arm and arm went black and white

[00:01:15] And some saw red

[00:01:17] And drove them from their hotel bed

[00:01:25] Love is never easy

[00:01:29] It's short of the hope

[00:01:31] We have for happiness

[00:01:36] Bright and sweet

[00:01:38] Love is never easy street

[00:01:40] Now we are black and white

[00:01:43] Embracing out in the lunatic New York night

[00:01:48] It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town

[00:01:52] Or be hung in a tree

[00:01:54] That's unlikely

[00:01:56] Tonight these crowds

[00:02:04] Are happy and loud

[00:02:11] Children are up dancing in the streets

[00:02:15] In the sticky middle of the night

[00:02:17] Summer serenade

[00:02:18] Of taxi horns and fun arcades

[00:02:22] Where right or wrong

[00:02:24] Under neon

[00:02:26] Every feeling goes on

[00:02:29] For you and me

[00:02:32] The sidewalk is a history book

[00:02:34] And a circus

[00:02:36] Dangerous clowns

[00:02:38] Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions

[00:02:41] They have been handed

[00:02:43] Day by day

[00:02:44] Generations on down

[00:03:34] We came up from the subway

[00:03:38] On the music midnight makes

[00:03:43] To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone

[00:03:47] In taxi horns and brakes

[00:03:51] Now Charlie's down in Mexico

[00:03:55] With the healers

[00:03:57] So the sidewalk leads us with music

[00:04:01] To two little dancers

[00:04:06] Dancing outside a black bar

[00:04:11] There's a sign up on the awning

[00:04:15] It says Pork Pie Hat Bar

[00:04:19] And there's black babies dancing

[00:04:27] Tonight