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Rockin’ Chair (Live at Newport Jazz Festival, 1958) Lyrics by Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong: 16 Most Requested Songs

1958

[Verse 1: Jack Teagarden, (Louis Armstrong)]
Old rockin' chair's got me (Old rockin’ chair got you, father)
Cane by my side (And your cane by your side)
Fetch me my gin, son (You know you don’t drink gin, father)
‘Fore I tan your hide (My hide’s already tanned)
[Verse 2: Jack Teagarden, (Louis Armstrong)]
Can't get from this cabin, old cabin (What cabin? Joking father, yes)
Ain't goin' nowhere (You ain't goin' nowhere, yes)
Just sittin' here grabbin' (Grabbin')
At the flies round my rockin' chair (Rockin' chair)
[Bridge: Jack Teagarden, (Louis Armstrong)]
Now, do you remember dear old aunt Harriet?
(Yes, I remember old Aunt Harriet)
How long in Heaven she be?
(Oh, she been up there about a year and a half, father)
Send me a sweet chariot (scat)
For the end of the trouble I see (My sweet chariot)
[Verse 3: Jack Teagarden, (Louis Armstrong)]
Old rockin' chair’s got me Louis, got me
(Old rockin’ chair get it, father)
And the Judgement Day is comin’ up on me
(Tell ‘em ‘bout it father)
Chained to my old rockin' chair
(Boys, take it out strong)
[Verse 1: Louis Armstrong, (Jack Teagarden)]
Look like old rockin’ chair’s got you, daddy
(I can’t move a peg, Louis)
Yeah, look like your cane layin’ down there by your side
(Well, I use it for a trombone sometimes) yes sir
But I got no gin father, yes
(Yeah, well you better now)
Yes, look like you gonna tan my hide
(No, I’m gonna forgive you this time)
[Verse 2: Louis Armstrong, (Jack Teagarden)]
Now, you can’t get from this cabin
(Mmm, what cabin?)
No father, yes (Yeah?)
But you ain’t goin’ nowhere
(I never been where I was goin’, I ain’t goin’ anymore)
Diggin’, diggin’
You sit here grabbin’ (Yeah)
You grabbin’ (yeah), you grabbin’ (what?)
At the flies round the old rockin' chair, rockin' chair
[Bridge: Louis Armstrong, (Jack Teagarden)]
Now look here father (Yeah?)
You remember old Aunt Harriet, don’t you?
I know you remember
(Yeah! Yeah, I know her pretty well but not that well) Scat
A chariot, a chariot
(I got the ride, yeah I gotta have a chariot)
Curse the time it troubled both of us this evening
(Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen)
[Verse 3: Louis Armstrong, (Jack Teagarden)]
Now old rockin’ chair get it (yeah)
Now rockin’ chair get it (mmm hmm)
And Judgement Day
Yes Judgement Day is here, Judgement Day is here
Is sittin’ here chained to ya rockin’ chair
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