My Favorite Things

[Aggie87]

Copied this off of RMB, courtesy of a couple of different posters from back in 1997. It was a collaborative, add-on lyric, and I thought it was kinda clever. Courtesy of some guys named Alan Young, Dave Harrison, and Ron Dudgeon.

"My Favorite Things"

Tom-tom and hi-hat and claves and conga,

Shuffle or swing waltz or bossa or rhumba,

Bass in a groove and piano that swings,

These are a few of my favorite things.

Tenors like Lester's and Flugels like Miles,

Klezmer and Tango and barrelhouse styles,

Old blues guitarists who wail on their strings,

These are a few of my favorite things.

When the key sticks,

when the string breaks,

got some nerves to soothe:

I get up and wail with my favorite things

and then I'm back in groove.

Little swing combos and Hot Fives and Sevens

The thought and the logic in work by Bill Evans

The thrill that goes through me when Lady Day sings

These are a few of my favourite things.

Miles on vinyl and coltrane on CD

Hard driving blues played in the "C" key

Aging old hippies who dig music that swings

These are a few of my favourite things.

Verve and Mosaic and Prestige and Blue Note

Monk in his fur hat and bop lines that Bird wrote

Basie and Ellington, Coleman Hawkins

These are a few of my favourite things.

[John L]

Fun....(although Coleman Hawkins doesn't quite scan in the line, he was mighty).

[Jazzmoose]

Yeah, "the Mighty Hawk" might have worked better...

[JSngry]

"Hawk and his wings" - THAT works!

Or "Pops when he sings"...