Jamboree Jones-Johnny Mercer/The Les Brown Orchestra

[ti:Jamboree Jones] [ar:Johnny Mercer/The Pied Pipers/Meade "lux" Lewis] [al:The Man from Georgia] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jamboree Jones - Johnny Mercer (约翰尼·默瑟)/The Les Brown Orchestra [00:05.77]I'll begin the story [00:06.85]Out in West Virginia [00:08.28]Is a little college [00:09.77] [00:10.99]All the student body [00:12.11]Only cared for football [00:13.65]Never mind the knowledge [00:15.07] [00:16.12]Never mind the sheepskin [00:17.52]They preferred the pigskin [00:18.83]Seemed to have it in their bones [00:21.29]They knew all about it [00:22.66]Couldn't do without it [00:23.92]All except a certain Mr Jamboree Jones [00:26.87]He played the clarinet with all his might [00:30.69]He studied night and day he practiced day and night [00:35.48] [00:37.40]No runnin' up the field for Mr Jones [00:41.32]He'd rather run up the scale and down the scale [00:44.94] [00:46.51]What tones [00:47.70] [00:50.29]Even though his buddies [00:51.34]Always cut their studies [00:52.63]To attend the rallies [00:54.56] [00:55.43]While they all were rootin' [00:56.57]You could hear him tootin' [00:57.71]What's become of sally [00:59.34] [01:00.42]How they used to hate him [01:01.58]Co eds wouldn't date him [01:02.92]Thought he was an awful bore [01:05.50]But he liked his rhythm [01:06.79]More than being with 'em [01:08.13]So he'd only turn in [01:09.20]For to practice some more [01:10.99]Meanwhile the team marched on to greater fame [01:14.90]Till they were asked to play that famous rose bowl game [01:20.74] [01:21.32]And on that day of days the students beamed [01:25.09]What did they do when the team [01:27.34]Marched on the field [01:29.02] [01:30.68]The scene rah rah rah rah rah [01:34.13] [01:42.01]Oh [01:43.31] [01:55.33]Startin' from the kick off [01:56.43]They pulled every trick off [01:57.70]But they couldn't win it [01:59.01] [02:00.41]Instead of goin' forwards [02:01.65]They were goin' backwards [02:02.89]'Bout a mile a minute [02:04.25] [02:05.64]Seein' their position [02:06.79]They called intermission [02:08.03]And they heard the referee say [02:09.84]He told them [02:10.86]Seventeen to nothin' [02:12.00]Ain't exactly nothin' [02:13.18]And you've only got about a minute to play [02:16.44]Then from the stand there came a distant wail [02:20.23]And it was jamboree a swingin' hold 'em yale [02:25.63] [02:26.93]And all the students then began to yell [02:30.58]The players marched up the field [02:32.80]And down the field pell mell [02:36.85] [02:42.11]Now on a certain west Virginia hill [02:46.19]There stands that college still [02:48.80]Just as it always will [02:51.10] [02:52.48]And there's a picture in the hall of fame [02:56.52]You'll see the boy in the frame who won the game [03:00.06]Jamboree Jones is the gentleman's name [03:02.48]Jamboree Jones is the gentleman's name