Announcement By Norman Granz-Buck Clayton/Charlie Parker (as)/Willie Smith (2as)/Coleman Hawkins

[ti:A-Sleeping At the Foot of the Bed] [ar:"Little" Jimmy Dickens] [al:My Mom Heard Me Crying] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Announcement By Norman Granz - Buck Clayton (巴克·克莱顿)/Charlie Parker (as)/Willie Smith (2as)/Coleman Hawkins (柯曼·霍金斯) [00:06.49]Did you ever sleep at the foot of the bed [00:09.37]When the weather was a whizzin' cold [00:10.92] [00:11.74]When the wind was a whistlin' round [00:13.82]The house and the moon was yellow as gold [00:16.39] [00:17.01]You give your good one mattress [00:19.27]Up to aunt Lizzie and uncle Fred [00:21.52] [00:22.48]Too many kinfolks on a bad night [00:25.36]So you went to the foot of the bed [00:27.24] [00:28.41]I could always wait till the old folks [00:31.14]Had an eating believings with grace [00:32.94] [00:33.76]The teacher could keep me after school [00:36.29]I'd still have a smile on my face [00:38.55] [00:39.07]I could wear the big boys worn out clothes [00:41.86]And let sister have my sled [00:43.53] [00:44.22]But I'd always did get my nanny goat [00:47.00]To sleep at the foot of the bed [00:48.93] [01:11.60]Was fine enough when the kinfolks come [01:14.39]And the kids brought brand new games [01:16.29] [01:16.85]You could see how fat all the old folks [01:19.47]Was and learn all the babies names [01:21.47] [01:22.19]Had biscuits and custard and chicken pie [01:25.04]We all got Sunday fed [01:26.65] [01:27.47]But I'd know darn well when nighttime come [01:30.47]I was heading for the foot of the bed [01:32.38] [01:33.54]They say some folks don't know [01:35.69]What it is having company all over the place [01:38.04] [01:38.94]To wrestle for cover on a winter night [01:41.72]With a big foot sitting in your face [01:43.64] [01:44.27]Or a cold toenail just a scratching your back [01:47.31]And the foot boards grabbing your head [01:49.62]I'll tell the world you ain't lost a thing [01:52.53]Never a sleepin' at the foot of the bed [01:54.32] [02:17.14]I've done it over and over again [02:19.72]In this land of the brave and the free [02:22.28]And in this awful battle of life [02:25.08]It's left it's mark on me [02:26.86] [02:27.66]For I'm always a struggling around [02:29.97]At the foot instead of forging ahead [02:32.26] [02:33.11]And I don't think it's caused from a dog [02:35.58]Gone thing but a sleepin' at the foot of the bed