Sing You Sinners (LP版)-The Manhattan Transfer

[ti:Sing You Sinners] [ar:Manhattan Transfer with Phil Collins] [al:Swing] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sing You Sinners (LP版) - The Manhattan Transfer [00:00.18]Written by：W. Frank Harling [00:00.37]Once a mocking bird [00:01.59]Dig he was overheard [00:02.79]Singing out a word [00:04.12]I to a cattle heard [00:05.40]All you bovine creatures [00:07.82]Dig what I'm layin' down [00:09.55]All you sinners drop everything everything [00:12.23]Let the melody and the harmony ring let it ring [00:14.74]Lift arms up to heaven [00:16.11]And sing ring a ding [00:17.48]Sing you sinners won't you [00:18.37]Away and swing what a thing [00:20.09]Start with clappin' your hands [00:21.36]All about all about [00:22.59]Don't be silent let the Lord hear [00:24.31]You shout shout it out [00:25.39]And just let the music come out of your snout [00:27.95]Sing you sinners won't you sway and swing [00:29.78]Check it out [00:30.45]Dig the drift of what I mean in a world [00:32.39]Where there's no music [00:33.77]Old scratch Satan get's his kick's [00:35.68]He's up to his tricks [00:37.13]He'll be laughing up and down the banks [00:38.91] [00:39.58]Of that river Styx [00:41.04]You're so wicked baby and [00:42.25]You're depraved you can rave [00:43.61]It's apparent that you have misbehaved to your grave [00:46.20]But if you should wanna be saved just behave [00:48.83]Take a listen now to the bird [00:51.10]Stop all that chewin' your curd [00:52.81] [00:54.16]And all that standin' in the mud there [00:56.03] [00:56.61]Swing people [00:59.21]Swing every chortle from your mortal portal [01:01.35] [01:01.89]I know that everyone believes that [01:04.91]Cattle prodigies are like a sneeze [01:07.71]Hard blowin' missin one [01:10.31]Lick of blowin' talent to show [01:11.92]If you sing you gotta swing [01:13.78]But remember that the day will come when you [01:16.25]Will be just steak on a plate [01:17.72]Folks you know it's fate [01:18.96]So dig the music of the swing of sphere [01:21.26]Before your swing arrives too late [01:23.07]That's a little too dark [01:24.27]Still it is true we've got breath for such a limited time [01:27.63] [01:28.58]What are ya stupid ya cows [01:30.42]You'd think to sing was a crime [01:32.06] [01:32.71]In defense now hence now here comes Adele Mccluck [01:37.30]Mrs. Mocking bird I must say you haven't heard [01:40.54]Of the friendly [01:41.64]Bellowing swing of our friends the cows [01:44.22]As they shed their way from Tea garden to Fuller [01:46.89] [01:47.79]Instead of spendin' every day just sneakin' around [01:50.40]To live another lick [01:52.92]These cats work on their cow tone [01:54.80]So when they get up to blow [01:56.24]They blow a fatter bone tone into the ozone [01:58.65]And furthermore you tweety birds are always singin' away [02:01.52]Never givin' up a thought of what you say [02:04.10] [02:04.81]We cows do shedding takes up most of our day [02:07.94] [02:08.67]So when we start settlin' to play we could say [02:11.95] [02:12.81]A moo is an array [02:14.36]Of what we've always known to be [02:16.04]The best and only way to play [02:18.57]What we mean to say is [02:20.09]Before the band will let ya sing sing with [02:21.58]Fletcher Henderson [02:22.37]You've got to get your self to swing like the [02:24.13]Bean or Satch [02:25.04]So your horn can blow a single note [02:27.33]Or two of deeper thinking [02:28.98]That's the way to swing [02:30.40]So set your mind upon a tone [02:31.71]When you're shedding all alone [02:32.84]And you will have a cornerstone [02:34.01]Like the bass trombone [02:35.51]Blow your horn and take a bow so [02:37.79]That you're swinging like the cows [02:38.69]Pythagoras would be so proud of us