Biography:
Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards. Rickie Lee Jones is a singer songwriter whose style leans on jazz and pop/R&B timing and personification.
Jones settled in LA at the age of nineteen, doing the classic waiting tables stuff until she landed a recording contract with Warners.
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Dutch took 'em on the slow train to Peking on La Brea Avenue
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To find the Stax and Sun They were reaching to get to
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They was a rapping the flat scat Diamond dialectos of points and taps
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Between the chicken and the back They drew themselves a be-bop Midnight map
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They said "do you got a map the next joint?"
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"Do you got a map the next joint?"
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Pick it up on the night train Down on the corner of rhythm and blues
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Where I have met all of my boys since Back in '52
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Bringing 'em Stax and Sun
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'cause I think that Cleveland forgot And Memphis forgot Where they were coming from
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Do ya like it? Do ya like it like that?
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Do you like rapping the fat scat?
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I got the boogie boogie in my socks
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please don't make the litte girl stop
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Woody and Dutch dance in the cell of fourteen Like a pill they do it all night
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Spectators, White-walls, find and greased back Every Saturday night
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Leaning in the scenery Picking up the kids At the next door neighbors' "Yeah I know what
you did
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Yeah I got a room you can stay in If you promise you won't make so much noise"
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"No I won't"
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"No I don't!"
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E E E E
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E B E
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Dutch took 'em on the slow train to Peking on La Brea Avenue
E B E
To find the Stax and Sun They were reaching to get to
E B E
They was a rapping the flat scat Diamond dialectos of points and taps
E B E
Between the chicken and the back They drew themselves a be-bop Midnight map
E A B E
They said "do you got a map the next joint?"
E A B E
"Do you got a map the next joint?"
E B E
Pick it up on the night train Down on the corner of rhythm and blues
E B E
Where I have met all of my boys since Back in '52
E B E
Bringing 'em Stax and Sun
E B E
'cause I think that Cleveland forgot And Memphis forgot Where they were coming from
E A B E
Do ya like it? Do ya like it like that?
E A B E
Do you like rapping the fat scat?
[Interlude]
E B E
E B E
A A
E E
A A
E E
E E E E
E E E E
E E E E
I got the boogie boogie in my socks
E E E E
please don't make the litte girl stop
E D
E D
E D
E D
E B E
E B E
E B E
Woody and Dutch dance in the cell of fourteen Like a pill they do it all night
E B E
Spectators, White-walls, find and greased back Every Saturday night
E B E
Leaning in the scenery Picking up the kids At the next door neighbors' "Yeah I know what
you did
E B E
Yeah I got a room you can stay in If you promise you won't make so much noise"
E B E
"No I won't"
E B E
"No I don't!"
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