ฟังเพลงReal American Folk Song

Real American Folk Song - Ella Fitzgerald

Near Barcelona the peasant crooned

The old traditional Spanish tunes

The Neapolitan street song sighs

You think of Italian skys

Each nation has a creative vein

Originating a native strain

With folk songs plaintive and others gay

In their own peculiar way

American folk songs I feel

Have a much stronger appeal

The real American folksong is a rag

A mental jag

A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues

The critics called it a "joke song" but now

They've changed their tune

And they like it somehow

For it's innoculated with a syncopated

Sort of meter sweeter

Than a classic strain boy you can't remain

Still or quiet for it's a riot

The real American folksong

Is like a fountain of you

You taste and it elates you

And then invigorates you

The real American folksong

The masses coaxed on is a rag

The real American folksong is a rag

A mental jag

A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues

The critics called it a "joke song" but now

They've changed their tune

And they like it somehow

For it's innoculated with a syncopated

Sort of meter sweeter

Than a classic strain boy you can't remain

Still or quiet for it's a riot

The real American folksong

Is like a fountain of you

You taste and it elates you

And then invigorates you

The real American folksong is a rag