“GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT” words by Joni Mitchell music by Charles Mingus When Charlie speaks of Lester You know someone great has gone The sweetest swinging music man Had a Porkie Pig hat on A bright star In a dark age When the bandstands had a thousand ways Of refusing a black man admission Black musician In those days they put him in an Underdog position Cellars and chittlins’ When Lester took him a wife Arm and arm went black and white And some saw red And...
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