[Dixielandjazz] FW: "Black and Blue" lyric

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

when May sings it, even the kids cry.  mind you, we prefix this by
explaining where the song came from in the musical, and then what
Louis Armstrong did with it in Ghana, but I think even without that,
May (who is Chinese) brings a great deal of her own hurt into it and
that makes all the difference. (and she sings "white inside", but with
an edge ;) )

On 10/1/14, Jim Kashishian <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
>
> Richard wrote:
>>Before I have to write my own lyric, has anyone got words a white guy can
> sing without getting a visit from the PC cops?
>
> Dunno about PC cops, but I don't see how someone white can pull off singing
> that song.  You'd have to give it a new title, also!  It's such a beautiful
> tune, why not leave it as an instrumental?  I don't sing it (for the above
> reasons), and most of our audiences don't even understand English!  It just
> wouldn't seem right to me...
>
> Jim
>
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