[ti:Where the Blues Were Born In New Orleans] [ar:Louis Armstrong] [al:The Best of Louis Armstrong, Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Where the Blues Were Born In New Orleans - Louis Armstrong [00:02.46]Composed by:Cliff Dixon [00:04.93]Folks come gather round my stand [00:08.25] [00:09.20]And hear Satchmo's happy Dixie band [00:12.59] [00:13.93]Now I know some people called it corn [00:17.32] [00:18.57]But right here's where the blues was born [00:22.36] [00:23.27]Hear that music blue just to think that you'd like to strut to on the floor [00:28.17]Hear that slide trombone and trumpet moan [00:30.69]As you're coming through the door [00:32.74]I'll guarantee that you'll never see like the likes of them again [00:37.53]And stomp your feet to the beat of the Dixie music men [00:42.11]Everybody move and get right in the groove [00:44.56]There ain't nothing you can lose [00:46.74]Now right here's the spot where we all get hot in a nasty mess of blues [00:51.37]Yeah it's the place you'd slap and smack the bass [00:54.01]Music that's what I mean [00:56.24]This is where the blues was born in New Orleans [01:00.90]Let me introduce Mr. Charlie Beal [01:03.65]Piano man can he spiel [01:05.50]Only got two hands but that's a'plenty [01:07.90]'Cause when he plays it sounds like twenty [01:10.34] [01:14.86]Here's Kid Ory on the horn [01:17.30]Greatest slide-man ever born [01:19.48]Plays trombone spins with a laughter note no human being ever wrote [01:23.93] [01:28.47]Here's Barney Bigard and his clarinet [01:31.01]You ain't never heard nothing like him yet [01:33.21]When he cuts loose I know you'll roll [01:35.54]Mr. Bigard please give 'em more [01:38.15] [01:42.57]Here's Bud Scott and his old guitar always smoking a big cigar [01:47.36]He's a rhythm man of great renown [01:49.66]Give a listen while he goes to town [01:52.33] [01:57.37]Red Callendar meet him face to face [01:59.26]He's the man that snaps the old bass [02:01.51]He started out with a violin and the doggone thing grew up on him [02:06.24] [02:10.94]And here's me excuse my crust introduce myself I must [02:15.57]I'm Satchmo Armstrong don't forget [02:18.07]I got to give out on the old cornet