Calypso Be - Remastered
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This modern music's got me confused
To tell you friends I'm quite unenthused
This modern music's got me confused
To tell you friends I'm quite unenthused
I like Pee Wee Hunt or the Great Count Basie
But can't make head nor tail of this Dizzy Gillespie
With his ooh papa da, bee aba doo la
Beep bleep blee ooble ooble ooble ooble jum jillea ba
Ooh papa diddle oom pah pah
Dizzy Gillespie is the creator
Of this new style in cool with Charlie Parker
Coleman Hawkins, Howard McGee
They all indulge in this monstrosity
They take a major seventh and a flatted ninth
Two ooh-la-coos and a half a pint
Then ooh papa da, bee aba doo la
Beep bleep blee ooble ooble ooble ooble jum jillea ba
Ooh papa diddle oom pah pah
The beboppers you see around
They all converse in a special tongue
Ooh-la-coo and eelya da
One means hello, the other ta-ta
They call a man a cat and a girl a chick
And they're up to all kinds of shady tricks
With their ooh papa da, bee aba doo la
Beep bleep blee ooble ooble ooble ooble jum jillea ba
Ooh papa diddle oom pah pah
In conclusion, I must now say
The be-bop boys, they know how to play
But that music is not for me
So take it back, Mr. Gillespie
You'd better take it back to 52nd Street
With your high speed riffs and staccato beats
And your ooh papa da, bee aba doo la
Beep bleep blee ooble ooble ooble ooble jum jillea ba
Ooh papa diddle oom pah pah