Lena Horne: Feeling the Rhythm and Blues

(can you tell she had her nose fixed?)

as fate would have it
after two solid years of musical solitude
relearning the a,b,c's of my guitar
one of the local stars
rings me up and asks if i can play stormy weather
underneath him

his skin being dark like chocolate
and mine being white like sicilian pasta
he wants soul
and i want oh sol o mio

now i can hang with the best of 'em
when it comes to fast bluesy rock runs
but real soul
now that's something else
this must be felt
felt from the depths
of one long cotton picking history
of abuse and slavery
something that my culture
raised to the level
of an art form

i knows i can do it!