Jazz Great Mose Allison - RIP

[MikeRivers]

This getting old is getting old. Another jazz legend gone at the ripe old age of 89.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html?_r=0

[Hard Truth]

He was great. This is my favorite Mose song.

Your Mind Is On Vacation

 

You're sitting there yakkin' right in my face

I guess I'm gonna have to put you in your place

Y'know if silence was golden

You couldn't raise a dime

Because your mind is on vacation and your mouth is

Working overtime

 

 

You're quoting figures, you're dropping names

You're telling stories about the dames

You're always laughin' when things ain't funny

You try to sound like you're big money

If talk was criminal, you'd lead a life of crime

Because your mind is on vacation and your mouth is

Working overtime

 

 

You know that life is short and talk is cheap

Don't be making promises that you can't keep

If you don't like the song I'm singing, just grin and

Bear it

All I can say is if the shoe fits wear it

If you must keep talking please try to make it rhyme

'Cause your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working

Overtime

[electrow]

A Man whose choice of music is biting insight on our cultural milieu.