LYRICAL TRIBUTE TO THE TURRENTINE BROTHERS

L' PLACE
Re: Blue Note CDP 7-46142-2
Can be recited or sung to "La Place" by Stanley Turrentine, La Place Music - BMI
Lyrics by Nelson E. Harrison, Timeslice Music- ASCAP
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A tiny street… a footpath with a beat…
In Pittsburgh town… where cats were throwing down…
It's on the Hill… and guess what's standing still…A humble home… where T learned saxophone…
And the neighbors all knew… it would soon become true…
They were setting the pace… hanging out on L' Place.
A trumpet sound… no truer could be found…
A tenor man… with ears to beat the band…
The brothers T… were well known locally…
The traveling bands… would come to see first hand…
Soon as they had a clue… what the brothers could do…
They would all spread the word… of the things that they heard.

July the 4th… to show what you were worth…
They had a show… where everyone would go…
The streets were filled… with no one getting killed…
The times were gay… and folks were on display…
If you knew how to play… you would practice all day…
To have something to show… when the time came to blow.
From noon 'til night… until they got it right…
The sounds they made… would have to make the grade…
If you were good… your rep grew in the hood…
The girls at school… would know that you were cool…
Little Georgie could sing… and he learned how to swing…
On a tiny guitar… 'til he became a star…
This is where it began… how you became a man…
Not a trace of disgrace… proud to be from L' Place…
Where a couple of kids… would emerge from the skids…
'Cause they knew how to hang… with the rest of the gang…
The street dance they put on… in the old days is gone…
But you would be in awe… of the things that we saw.

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