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[spoken:]
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I remember when me and Louis Armstrong was in the same home
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And that was a place back in Chantilly in New Orleans
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He was a few years older than me,
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But I was in there from one year old
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And he came in, he was a big boy then
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But he come in from being bad around the street
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Shootin' pistols up and down Rampart Street
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But I was already there
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And he used to blow the bugle for us to go to bed at night
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And he used to blow a comb with a piece of paper
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But he is Mister to the world
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He was a black man, but a great black man
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He was the Trumpet King
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Some people call him the King and some didn't
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But regardless of what they call him he was still that: the King
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So he was a friend of mine and he was a friend to the world
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And a friend to the people
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So I'd love to sing this to him:
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[sings:]
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Go on Louis, fast asleep
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Go on, your soul to keep
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May the good Lord in heaven
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Have mercy, have mercy on you
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You done your best to the world
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Made people happy, all around the world
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But when the lights, come on again
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All over the world
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[sax solo by Hal Singer, over which Champion Jack speaks:]
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Go on Louis,
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I might join you one day
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Never can tell
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I say a little prayer for you
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Now lay me down to sleep
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I pray the good Lord my soul to keep
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If I should die before I awake
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I pray the Lord my soul to take
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[guitar solo by Mickey Baker, over which:]
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It's a hard road but I keep on walkin'
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I never give up
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You take all musicianers, old-timers
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Will go the same way Louis Armstrong went
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Because we never give up
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We'll go until the last breath leave us
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And that's our life
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Women, music, and whiskey
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That's what we live for [laughs]
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We don't have no money, no
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And we never will be rich
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But we'll always be happy
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WIth the blues, with jazz
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[sings:]
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But if I could live my life
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All over, all over again
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Yes I'd live, live my life
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Like Louis, like Louis Armstrong did
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Made people happy, made you glad
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Made you laugh, like you ever had
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Go on Louis, go on Louis
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I'll meet you someday
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The Death Of Louis
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| Champion Jack Dupree |
