Tonart: Eb major
Verse 1
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That sweet expression,
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the smile you gave me
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It's easy to remember,
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or is it?
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It's March, of 1963
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In mid- morning, New Jersey
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Two musicians drive through the snow bound,
suburban landscape
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On their way to a recording session
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Verse 2
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an intensely dedicated musical explorer
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Has, of late, been studying
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the way singers breathe
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And hopes he would hear Frank
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Sinatra on the radio
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so he can consider one more
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no tion before the session
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an experienced song stylist
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Wonders whether he will ever hear his own
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voice over the airways
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The two men met only last week and have
only played a few pieces together
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The singer sitting in informally
Verse 3
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The singer is a little concerned
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that the band was gonna break
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Into some of the wild stuff
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he's heard them play
But the band leader,
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the gentle and positive man
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Will be going for something altogether
different on this occasion
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Something wholly sympathetic to
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the sound the singer has
Verse 4
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The two were joking and smoking and
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Talking about the songs
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They carry no chats,
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and have made no formal musical arrangements
Or even had a real rehearsal
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Everyone at the session will know
Each man having performed them,
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in a hundred different countries
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No one at the session will need to
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be told what to do or what to play
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The band is so well acquainted that
Verse 5
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any move that need to be established
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Will come naturally
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As the cats in the car talk
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Over the car's radio comes Nat Cole
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singing 'Lush Life'
Now he who doesn't know
all the words
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Out of fun the singer joins in any way
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And the two add one more tun
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e to the said list
Verse 6
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When they got to the studio, they end
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up recording it in one take
In fact, they do everything
in one take
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Almost the entire record except
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'You are too beautiful'
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Where they do a second take because of
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a dropped drum stick
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In three or four hours they are done
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Laughter, handshakes a long drive
Verse 7
home
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Just a year or so later,
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John Coltrane will go onto the highest artistic peaks
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Leading the same band in the creation of
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'Crescent' and 'A love supreme'
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And among the most beloved and respected
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in the history of recorded music
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Although Johnny Hartman will go on to make
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some great Ballard records after this one
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Including some attempting to echo the magic
of the one he makes with strings
Verse 8
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Most go unnoticed upon their release
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Broad fame will elude Hartman
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until well after this death
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But we remember them both
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