Mr Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles
Song by
Jerry Jeff Walker
I knew a man Bojangles and he danced for you
In worn out shoes
Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
The old soft shoe
He jumped so high
He jumped so high
Then he'd lightly touched down
Mr bojangles
Mr bojangles
Mr bojangles
Dance
I met him in a cell in new orleans i was
Down and out
He looked to me
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Categories:
bojangles, song,
Form: Lyric
Mr Bojangles-Piano Man
Piano man was what he said he was called.
Percussion he didn’t need to keep us enthralled.
Pianoforte, this was his instrument of choice.
Pacifying and entertaining with his velvet voice.
Piano man hit heights.
Please play those black and whites.
Pick a tune with pazazz.
Play that great old time Jazz.
Phrase those songs to tap our feet.
Pure honkey tonk,
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Categories:
bojangles, appreciation, cool, emotions, music,
Form: Rhyme
Bojangles
I swore
over and over
and
over and over
Forever
to love her
no matter
the whim
But time
after time
as each siren
would call
I rambled
and left her
my nose
— in the wind
(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)
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Categories:
bojangles, love,
Form: Rhyme
Referee and Bojangles Skeleton
Referee Skeleton was reluctant to join his brother
But he was urged by his sister, father and mother
So, he went to the speak easy and danced the night away
With Bojangles, his brother, who knows how to play.
They did the watusi, two step, and a few moves of their own.
Some of the women watched from afar, one
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Categories:
bojangles, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mister Bojangles Dance
The imagery of experience,
the magic of verse
Each word bought and paid for
—to bless or to curse
(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: 1971)
‘With Jerry Jeff Walker At The Main Point’
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Categories:
bojangles, poetry,
Form: Rhyme