HI-FLY
(Randy Weston / Jon Hendricks)  1959

as recorded by Mel Torme


People walkin' round,
Livin' in a daze,
High above the ground
With their crazy ways!
All around the town,
Actin' silly while they fly!

High falutin' crowds
With their foreign cars,
Livin' in the clouds, 
Shootin' for the stars!
They can never see
Life the way it oughta be!

Old ways
Seem to have passed us by;
These days,
Life is in hi-fly!

Everybody's hep;
Every kind of sound
Comes from every lip.
Everybody's down,
'Bout to really flip,
Actin' dippy while they fly high!

Old ways
Seem to have passed us by;
These days,
Life is in hi-fly!

Everybody's hep;
Every kind of sound
Comes from every lip.
Everybody's down,
'Bout to really flip,
Actin' dippy while they fly high!
(scat)

Hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-fly!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - October 2013)