The Old Music Master-Nat King Cole

[ti:The Old Music Master] [ar:Nat King Cole] [al:Nat's Kick] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Old Music Master - Nat King Cole (纳·京·高尔) [00:21.10]One night long ago by the light of the moon [00:25.00] [00:26.01]An old music master sat composing a tune [00:29.93] [00:31.18]His heart was soaring and his heart full of joy [00:35.14] [00:36.39]When right out of nowhere stepped [00:38.98]A little colored boy [00:40.74] [00:41.95]You gotta jump it music master [00:43.54] [00:44.31]You gotta play that rhythm faster [00:45.99] [00:46.57]You're never gonna get it played [00:48.54]On the Happy Cat Hit Parade [00:50.17] [00:51.23]You better tell your friend Beethoven [00:52.94] [00:53.46]And Mister Reginald De Koven [00:55.32] [00:55.98]They better do the same as you [00:57.70]Or they're gonna be corny too [00:59.13] [01:00.08]Long about nineteen seventeen [01:01.97] [01:02.54]Jazz'll come upon the scene [01:04.70]Then about nineteen thirty-five [01:06.96]You'll begin to hear swing [01:07.83]Boogie Woogie and Jive [01:08.92] [01:09.52]You gotta show that big broadcaster [01:11.19] [01:11.76]That you're a solid music master [01:13.43] [01:13.95]And you'll achieve posterity [01:15.69]That's a bit of advice from me [01:17.27] [01:22.87]The old music master simply sat there amazed [01:26.48] [01:27.40]As wide-eyed and open-mouthed [01:29.63]He gazed and he gazed [01:31.36] [01:32.09]How can you be certain little boy tell me how [01:36.03] [01:36.68]Because I was born my friend [01:39.00]A hundred years from now [01:40.62] [01:41.80]He hit a chord that rocked the spinet [01:44.11]And disappeared into the infinite [01:45.84] [01:46.35]And up until the present day [01:48.40]In the haple way [01:50.10] [02:08.99]He hit a chord that rocked the spinet [02:11.28]And disappeared into the infinite [02:13.64]And up until the present day [02:15.39]You can take it from me [02:16.53] [02:17.53]He's as right as can be [02:19.19] [02:20.11]Ev'rything has happened that away