Take Me Back In Time
Gerald Hall
People tell me to play something new.
Those old fashioned songs just won't do.
But I can't help what's deep in my heart.
I've known it from the start
I'd rather hear a big band swinging in 9/8 time.
Frankie singing back in his prime.
Nat Cole playing Paper Moon.
Give me a Gershwin tune.
I love it when Satchmo blows while Ella sings,
And Coltrane knows My Favorite Things.
Red hot rhythm and cool cool rhyme.
Count Basie one more time.
Spinning records my dad used to play.
Dean Martin and Doris Day.
They had something that sure was fine.
So take me back in time.
I dig it when Django's riffing that gypsy jive.
And Brubeck's telling me to Take Five.
Bird and Dizzy were the bebop school,
And Miles D. played it cool.