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When Charlie speaks of Lester
You know someone great has gone
The sweetest swinging music man
Had a porky pig idol
A brass star in a duck hat
When a bass tells of a thousand ways of refusing
A black man admission
A black musician
In those days they put him in
An underdog position
Said there was some cheating
When Lester took him away
Arm and arm with black and white and some soul men
And drove them from their hotel bay
Tonight these crowds are happy and loud
Children are dancing in the streets
Love is never easy
It showed all the hope we had for happiness
Bright and sweet
Love is never easy
Now we're black and white and racing out
It could have been taken years ago now
It's very likely it will be driven out of town
Or be hung in a tree
That's unlikely
Tonight these crowds are happy and loud
Children are dancing in the streets
Came up from the subway
On the music midnight makes
Charlie's bass
And Lester's saxophone
Taxi horns and grapes
Charlie's down in Mexico
With the healers
So do sidewalks
The sidewalk greets us with musicThere's black babies dancing
Tonight
Tonight
So right
Tonight
There's black
There's black
There's black babies dancing
Check them out dancing in the streets
There's black babies dancing
Tonight