Jazz Poems

CHARLES PARKER 1920~1955

Listen

This here

Is what

Charlie

Did

To the Blues.

Listen

That there

Is what

Charlie

Did

To the Blues.

This here,

bid-dle-dee-dee

bid-dle-dee-dee

bopshop

have you any cool?

bahdada

one horn full.

Charlie

Filled the Blues

With

Curly-cues.

That’s what

Charlie

Did

To the Blues.

Play

That again

Drop

A nickel in,

Charlie’s

Dead

Charlie’s

Gone,

But

John Birks

Carried on.

Drop

A nickel in,

Give

The platter

A spin,

Let’s listen

To what

Charlie

Did

To the Blues.

WARING CUNEY

from Jazz Poems ~ Selected and Edited by Kevin Young

SUITE TABU 200

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