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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

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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.

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Front page photo: 📷 Randall Armor.

 

 

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