“GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT” words by Joni Mitchellmusic by Charles Mingus When Charlie speaks of LesterYou know someone great has goneThe sweetest swinging music manHad a Porkie Pig hat onA bright starIn a dark ageWhen the bandstands had a thousand waysOf refusing a black man admissionBlack musicianIn those days they put him in anUnderdog positionCellars and chittlins’ When Lester took him a wifeArm and arm went black and whiteAnd some saw redAnd drove them...
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