| Straight to the top
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| How could you ever lose
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| Guess you must have had it all
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| To be a star on the jazz scene
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| Try to keep it clean
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| They came to see you
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| Managers came too
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| Play ballads that will live forever
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| Taking what you get
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| It wasn’t what it should have been
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| So you call on blue
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| And the memories seem to be so far away
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| Or so they say
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| Down on your luck
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| You picked it up again to rise up above them all
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| In Europe there was an uproar
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| Knocked you down once more
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| Look up the door
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| Never give in and play
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| With all the life that is around you
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| That’s what I hear you say
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| You know that I’m with you Chet
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| That’s right I am with you here today
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| Have you met Chet?
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| And had some time to spare
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| To kick back a notch or two
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| It’s like a ride in a big car
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| Chet, you went so far they’re following you
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| The style with which you blew
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| Time has a way of drifting by us
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| Feeling what you gave
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| It melts away the blues in me
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| So those days are gone
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| But the melodies that you played will carry on
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| An endless song
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| Sad in a way
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| You know the way it goes
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| The music keeps moving on
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| As if each set was the last one
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| Place your horn once more
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| One, two, three, four
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| Never give in and play
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| With all the life that is around you
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| That’s what I hear you say
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| You know that I’m with you Chet
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| That’s right I am with you here today |