The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)-Ella Fitzgerald

[ti:The Real American Folk Song (Is A Rag)] [ar:Ella Fitzgerald] [al:Jazz Manifesto] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag) - Ella Fitzgerald [00:12.75]Near barcelona the peasant crooned [00:17.95]The old traditional spanish tunes [00:22.62] [00:23.15]The neapolitan street song sighs [00:29.02] [00:29.54]You think of italian skies [00:35.28] [00:36.64]Each nation has a creative vein [00:41.11]Originating a native strain [00:46.55] [00:47.21]With folk songs plaintive and others gay [00:52.87] [00:53.40]In their own peculiar way [00:58.85] [01:00.33]American folk songs I feel [01:05.24] [01:06.19]Have a much stronger appeal [01:13.51] [01:28.81]The real American folk song is a rag [01:33.39]A mental jag [01:35.27] [01:35.77]A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues [01:39.03]The critics called it a joke song but now [01:42.69] [01:43.83]They've changed their tune and they like it somehow [01:48.15]For it's inoculated with a syncopated sort of meter sweeter [01:54.25]Than a classic strain boy you can't remain still or quiet for it's a riot [01:59.20]The real American folk song [02:01.33]Is like a fountain of youth [02:03.59] [02:04.12]You taste and it elates you and then invigorates you [02:10.06]The real American folk song the masses coaxed on is a rag [02:14.02] [02:47.09]The real American folk song is a rag [02:51.36]A mental jag [02:53.31] [02:53.97]A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues [02:57.10]The critics called it a joke song but now [03:01.18] [03:01.84]They've changed their tune and they like it somehow [03:06.44]For it's inoculated with a syncopated sort of meter sweeter [03:12.56]Than a classic strain boy you can't remain still or quiet for it's a riot [03:17.83]The real American folk song [03:19.91]Is like a fountain of youth [03:22.38]You taste and it elates you and then invigorates you [03:27.46]The real American folk song is a rag