[ti:The Real American Folk Song]
[ar:Ella Fitzgerald]
[al:The Songbooks Collection Vol. 3]
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[00:00.00]The Real American Folk Song(Is a Rag) - Ella Fitzgerald/Nelson Riddle
[00:06.31]Written by：Ira Gershwin/George Gershwin
[00:12.63]Near Barcelona the peasant crooned
[00:17.85]The old traditional Spanish tunes
[00:23.08]The Neapolitan street song sighs
[00:29.53]You think of Italian skys
[00:36.58]Each nation has a creative vein
[00:41.22]Originating a native strain
[00:47.17]With folk songs plaintive and others gay
[00:53.40]In their own peculiar way
[01:00.44]American folk songs I feel
[01:06.40]Have a much stronger appeal
[01:28.95]The real American folksong is a rag
[01:33.44]A mental jag
[01:35.81]A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues
[01:39.06]The critics called it a joke song but now
[01:43.90]They've changed their tune and they like it somehow
[01:48.27]For it's innoculated with a syncopated sort of meter sweeter
[01:54.24]Than a classic strain boy you can't remain still or quiet for it's a riot
[01:59.47]The real American folksong
[02:01.72]Is like a fountain of you'th
[02:04.34]You taste and it elates you and then invigorates you
[02:09.35]The real American folksong the masses coaxed on is a rag
[02:47.39]The real American folksong is a rag
[02:51.68]A mental jag
[02:54.36]A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues
[02:57.52]The critics called it a joke song but now
[03:02.40]They've changed their tune and they like it somehow
[03:06.79]For it's innoculated with a syncopated sort of meter sweeter
[03:12.74]Than a classic strain boy you can't remain still or quiet for it's a riot
[03:18.03]The real American folksong
[03:20.33]Is like a fountain of you'th
[03:22.61]You taste and it elates you and then invigorates you
[03:27.83]The real American folksong is a rag