Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Quintorigo

He put all of his soul

Into a tenor saxophone

He had a way a talking

't was a language of his own

Life story love and glory

If you listen when he plays it for you

Now listen and listen, and dig it

Can you dig it?

Lester Young is playing what is feeling

Dealing and dancing you home

When Charlie speaks of Lester

You know that someone great has gone

The sweetest swinging music man

Had a Porkie Pie hat on

A bright star in a dark age

When the bandstands had a thousand ways

Of refusing a blackman admission

Black musician

In those days they put him in an underdog position

Cellars and chittlins