GENIE ON A TABLE TOP
I went floating down the street one day
With a song playing in my mind
Hopping and bopping like a ricochet
Bad news was hard to find
There was a hint of syncopation
Coming from the sidewalk and the street
There was a glint of scintillation
Hanging over everyone you'd meet
And it makes me feel okay
Like a big yellow tractor going mowing through a field of hay
Like a genie on a table top surfing through the month of May
I saw a world in the window of a knick-knack shop
And I tossed it in the air
A girl went by with a forget-me-not
And she wore it in her hair
There was a peak of pixillation
And I never noticed it before
There was a jump of jubilation
And it seemed to promise more and more
And it makes me feel okay
Like a big yellow tractor going mowing through a field of hay
Like a genie on a table top surfing through the month of May
Oh she loves me and she loves me
Better than I've ever loved myself
She knows me and she loves me
Better, now I want nobody else
Oh she loves me and she loves me
Better than I've ever loved myself
She knows me and she loves me
Better, now I want nobody else
Percolating through the noonday sun
With wings upon my shoes
I was jumping about in front of everyone
No dignity to lose
There was a rush of animation
Bubbling about inside my soul
There was a rin-tin-tabulation coming
It was so hard to control
And it makes me feel okay
Like a pig with a bucket full of truffles in a French cafe
Like Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the judgment day
Like a flying boat captain with an amethyst lake below
Like a winner of a marathon rolling in a field of snow
Like a figure skating gigolo looking for a heart to steal
Like a simulated orgasm suddenly becoming real
Like a big yellow tractor going bowling through a field of hay
Like a genie on a table top surfing through the month of May
GUITAR TABLATURE
SONG HISTORY
Louis Daniel (Satchmo) Armstrong - (1900-1971)
Louis Armstrong maintained until his death that he was born on July 4, 1900 in New Orleans, although music historians have since shed doubt on that assertation. His father worked in a turpentine plant, and his mother was a "domestic". His grand parents had been slaves.
Armstrong celebrated New Years at the age of 13 by firing a .38 pistol. This landed him in the Colored Waifs' Home for Boys in 1913, and it was here that he learned to play the bugle. He tried several instruments while at the reform school, found he was drawn to the coronet, and became leader of the school band even though he was self taught.
In 1924 he expanded his style away from traditional New Orleans Jazz, and switched to the trumpet because of the brighter sound and flashier appearance.
A dynamic performer, Armstrong was able to move jazz from an ensemble form to a solo art. He is credited with inventing scat (supposedly because he dropped his sheet music).
Louis Armstrong made more then 35 films, including "High Society" and "Hello Dolly". Classic songs include "West End Blues", "Hello Dolly", "St. James Infirmary" and "When the Saints go Marching In"
Armstrong died on July 6, 1971 in New York City.