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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
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At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the mis-de and you just got meaner and meaner.
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White folks still in the lead.
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As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.
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You see, pops, that's the kind of talk that's ruining the music. Everyone's trying to do something new, no one trying to learn the fundamentals first. All them young cats playing their wierd chords. And what happens? No one's working.
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The best I can do is stay happy.
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Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.
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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
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You blows who you is.
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Red beans and ricely yours.
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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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