WHY CAN’T THEY "PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS"?
From: rick.boswell@gmail.com
I often watch and listen to Louis Armstrong, the undisputed greatest jazzman of all time, and I think of what Branford Marsalis said about him, "Louis always made you feel that somehow, someway, everything would come out all right".
When I watch the news and hear the hateful ravings of Rev. Wright and others, when I hear the South vilified and condemned and see the denigration of all Confederate symbols, I try to think of Louis and how much he loved the South and Southerners. He said that he had heard and played "millions" of songs but this was the one he loved best and he made it his "theme song".
It’s a shame that he couldn’t have performed it in Obama’s church every Sunday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIchLu29fXM
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
WHEN IT’S SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH
Words & Music by Leon Rene, Otis Rene & Clarence Muse, 1930
Pale moon shining on the fields below,
Folks are crooning songs soft and low,
Needn’t tell me so, be – cause I know
It’s sleepy time down south.
Soft winds blowing thru the pinewood trees,
Folks down there live a life of ease;
When the twilight brings the evening breeze,
It’s sleepy time down south.
Steamboats on the river, a-comin’ and a-goin’,
Splashing the night away
Hear those banjos ringing; the folks are alla-singin’ —
They dance till break of day.
Dear old Southland, with its dreamy songs,
Takes me back there where I belong;
How I’d love to be in mammy’s arms
When it’s sleepy time down south.
Yr. Obt. S’vnt,
Rick Boswell
