LISTEN MY CHILDREN AND YOU SHALL HEAR
Burton Lane (m) Ralph Freed (l)  1937

as rec by Jimmy Rushing w Count Basie & his Orch  
July 7th 1937 New York


Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the strangest thing;
They say that I was born to swing!
Listen my children and you shall hear
How I got the craze
>From rocking in my cradle days!

Normal kids would go to sleep like other sons and daughters,
but not for me, my mother had to sing me Muddy Waters!
Listen my children, though love is king,
I can get along as long as there's a song to swing!

Listen my children, though love is king,
I can get along,
I can get along;
I can swing ny song
As long as there's a song to swing,
As long as there's a song to swing!





(Contributed by Peter Akers - December 2009)