标题:Drop Me Off In Harlem
作词:N. Kenny
作曲:N. Kenny
制谱人:Stan Hancoff
This is a good-time feel and catchy melody tune. The bridge takes the standard circle of fifths chord progresion of the jazz er a and stands it on its head by making it a circle of fourths or upside-down fifths. It seems that Ellington was in a taxi with Nick Kenny, a well-known columnist for the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, crossing the George Washington Bridge after a benefit con cert. Kenny asked Duke where he was going; Duke replied,"Drop me off at Harlem." Nick suggested that his response would make a good title for a song. And how this piece came to be. Duke Ellington 1933
节拍: Moderate ♩ = 155
Drop Me Off in Harlem - Duke Ellington
Drop me off in Harlem
Any place in Harlem
There's someone waiting there
Who makes it seem like
Heaven up in Harlem
I don't want your Dixie
You can keep your Dixie
There's no one down in Dixie
Who can take me 'way
From my hot Harlem
Harlem has those southern skies
They're in my baby's smile
I idolize my baby's eyes
And classy up town style
If Harlem moved to China
I know of nothing finer
Than to stow away on a 'plane
Some day and have them
Drop me off in Harlem
Harlem has those southern skies
They're in my baby's smile
I idolize my baby's eyes
And classy up town style
If Harlem moved to China
I know of nothing finer
Than to stow away on a 'plane
Some day and have them
Drop me off in Harlem
If Harlem moved to China
I know nothing finer
Than to be in Harlem