[Answered] Get It Southern Style, Barney Bigard

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[Answered] Get It Southern Style, Barney Bigard

#1 Post by caab » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:00 am

I'm trying to figure out this one line from Duke Ellington's recording of "Get It Southern Style," first verse:

If you like songs crooned in a lazy way
Want all your swing with that rhythmic sway
?????????????????????????
Get it southern style

Any thoughts? I think I hear the word "bones" in there somewhere...

Here's a link to the song on Amazon, I couldn't find a video: http://www.amazon.com/Get-It-Southern-S ... B00522BQRM

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#2 Post by dancin_hanson » Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:48 pm

Laura -
It sounds like
"and Mister Sun do own your bones all day"
But ummmm, I don't think that's it... ;). I can't find the lyrics online. Maybe it'll hit me upon repeated listenings.
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#3 Post by trev » Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:19 pm

I've listened to it, and an alternate take, and my best guess is:

"and Mr sun dew on your bones all day"

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#4 Post by lipi » Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:54 pm

Hell if I know. The syllable before "own your bones" (or what have you) sounds like "to"/"too"/"two" to me, though, not "do"/"dew".

There are two takes of this on the 1936-1940 Ellington Small Group Mosaic, incidentally. They're both impossible to parse. :o)

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#5 Post by trev » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:17 pm

The lyrics were written by Henry Nemo and the singer is Sue Mitchell if that helps anyone.

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#6 Post by caab » Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:00 pm

Allen Kerr's guess was "Mr. Sun will warm your bones all day," which is I think what I'm going to go with.

Thanks for your help!

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#7 Post by Eyeball » Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:22 pm

trev wrote:The lyrics were written by Henry Nemo ..
I talked to him on the phone once. It was cool. He did the lyric to I LET A SONG GO OUT OF ME HEART, too.
Will big bands ever come back?

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#8 Post by lipi » Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:36 pm

"Mr Sun do warm your bones all day" sounds likely. It's definitely not "will".

BTW, I've been listening to this track a lot lately. Thanks for asking this question and getting it in my playlists. :o)

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#9 Post by trev » Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:50 pm

I agree with alex; that makes sense AND fits.

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#10 Post by anton » Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:50 am

"If you like [...] Mr Sun TO warm your bones all day" makes more sense to me.

Great song BTW - one on that box set (Mosaic 235) that I didn't pay attention to before.

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#11 Post by J-h:n » Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:47 pm

anton wrote:"If you like [...] Mr Sun TO warm your bones all day" makes more sense to me.
Of course. That's it.

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#12 Post by lipi » Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:07 pm

anton wrote:"If you like [...] Mr Sun TO warm your bones all day" makes more sense to me.
Damn' you and your obvious correctness!

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#13 Post by anton » Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:02 am

lipi wrote:Damn' you and your obvious correctness!
Sorry, that's just me :D

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#14 Post by trev » Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:32 am

Argh, of course! - it's so obvious now. This thread has made me feel progressively stupider!

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#15 Post by lipi » Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:41 pm

I listened to this a bunch recently, and transcribed all the lyrics. So, if anyone else wants them, here they are. (The alternate take has some "and"s and "oh"s in different places, but is essentially the same.)

(Note that "darkies" is considered extremely offensive in present day U.S.A.)

Get It Southern Style
(as sung by Sue Mitchell with Barney Bigard and His Jazzopators)

If you like songs crooned in a lazy way,
want all your swing with that rhythmic sway,
and Mr Sun to warm your bones all day,
get it southern style.

If you like cornbread that no one can beat,
chicken pie that tastes like a candied sweet,
and you lick your chops every time you eat,
get it southern style.

If you like pale moon shining on the fields below,
see bales of cotton piled row on row,
if darkies on the delta make your heart a-melta,
shout "oh mississippi, hold me closer!"

Where every girl's a pretty melody,
every sky scraper's just a tree,
and serves the best of hospitality,
get it southern style.
Get it southern style.

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