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Edward Kennedy Ellington
Edward Kennedy Ellington
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Edward Kennedy Ellington
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Songwriter

Lyrics

Thank you And now, our- Possibly, our most ambitious work of this season The Tattooed Bride The appropriate title I think would be better, the uh The Honeymoon Weekend of The Tattooed Bride But the most unusual thing about this particular tattooed bride Is the fact, is the way she's tattooed I mean, rather than to have Rather than having an assortment or variety of pictures Of diagrams and so forth She has a continuous repetition of the same Sort of a zig-zaggy looking figure And this many many times until they all run into And they look like either M's or W's And of course, you know, an M or W has four strokes And we tried to make four notes out of it So as to turn it over from the optical to the aural Is that right? Technically Anyway, from sight to sound And we took a pencil and wrote this M or the W And we got these four sounds Like Well, you'll now hear the development but that is the theme Jimmy Hamilton
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