THERE WAS A MINGUS AMONG US song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

there was a Mingus among us
banging piano inside our head
doubling down on the contra bass
playing till Mistah Kurtz he dead

the Baron the Angry Man of Jazz
an artist among all the junkies and fools
the master of cerebral razamatazz
the bird on the wire conductor of cool

So goodbye pork pie hat
goodbye Charlie Parker
goodbye Dizzy Gillespie
goodbye carnival barker

Charlie Mingus salvation
Charlie Mingus the saint
bop the top of jazz creation
if you is or if you aint

there was a Mingus among
but now he done up and gone
leaving one note floating on air
and the underdogs to carry on

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