Lyrics request: Birdland (Manhattan transfer)
Alfio
Hi,
i need this song for my band.
Thank you very much.
Excuse me for my english!!!!!
Bye
Alfio
Marc L LaForce
If my memory is correct, they go like this:
Five thousand light years from birdland but I'm still preachin' the rhythm
Long gone up tight years from birdland and i'm still teachin' it with 'em
Years from the land of the birdland and I am still feelin' the spirit
Five thousand light years from birdland but I know people can hear it
Bird named it, bird made it, bird heard it, then played it, well stated
Birdland, It happened down in birdland
In the middle of that hub I remember one jazz club
where we went to pat feet, down on fifty second street
everybody heard that word that they named it after bird
where the rhythm swooped and swirled
the jazz corner of the world
and the cats they gigged in there were beyond compare
Birdland, I'm sing' birdland
Birdland, 'ol swingin' birdland
[vocalise section]
Hey man the music really (ya turn me on) turns you on
you turn me around, and turn me on
[chorus]
down them stairs, lose them cares where? Down in Birdland
total swing, bop was king there, down in birdland
Bird would cook, Max would look where, down in birdland
Miles came through, 'Trane came too there, down in birdland
Basie blew, Blakey too where? Down in Birdland
Cannonball played that hall there, down in Birdland yeah
[bass solo]
There may never nothing such as that no more skoo be wah no more
down in birdland that's where it was at, I know uh uh uh uh uh
I know back in them days bop was riding high hello & goodbye
[wayne's solo]
How well those cats remember their first bird land gig
to play in birdland is an honor we still dig
yeah, that club was like in another world, sure enough yeah baby
all those cats had the cooking on poeple just sat and they was
steady looking on then bird he came and spread the word
Yes indeed he did (a bunch of times)
parker played in birdland
yardbird parker played in birdland
Bird named it, bird made it, bird heard it, then played it, well stated
Birdland, It happened down in birdland
everybody dug that beat every body stomped their feet
everybody digs bebop and they'll never stop
[repeat chorus]
[last solo, my memory is foggy here. . .lots of words realfast!]
come in pairs down them stairs lose your cares them that dares gets it
pay the gate dont be late it's a date what do you you
if you dig then you'll dig it's a groove, quite a groove, cause you to move(?)
come in twos pay your dues, what can you lose? Just your blues
so lose them the band swingin one and all and what a ball yeah.
<etc. . . . .>
Hope this helps
MLL