One of your emails about our dinner plans last night made me think of this song.
"The Old Stamping Ground" (1937)
Personnel:
Willie "The Lion" Smith - piano
Buster Bailey - clarinet
Pete Brown - alto sax
Jimmy McLin - guitar
John Kirby - bass
O'Neal Spencer - drums, vocal
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Folks I’ve got them hungry blues
And nothin’ in this to lose
People tellin’ me to choose
Between dyin’ and lyin’ and keep
on cryin’
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain’t you heard the news
There’s another thing to choose
A brand new world clean and fine
Where nobody’s hungry
And there’s no color line
A thing like that’s worth
anybody dyin’
I ain’t got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
James P. Johnson
Langston Hughes
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