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RIP Huey Pierce Smith 26/1/1934 - 13/2/2023

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If you wake up in the morning with the blues
And you don’t know what’s bothering you
It sounds as if you need a lift
Take a tip from Huey ‘Piano’ Smith

Get on board the sea cruise
You’re guaranteed to catch the boogie woogie flu
If you don’t know what that means
Huey will take you down to New Orleans

Hey oh, gooba gooba
Smiling just like a porcelain Buddha
Look up into the sky
Don’t you just know it, that’s a butterfly

Let’s not pretend it’s fair
When a man gets robbed of his rightful share
He said: ‘I tell you, my heart hurts,
But when you’re like me that’s the way it works.’

His left hand rolls like the sea
Horns are blowing as cool as a breeze
And the Clowns are singing the song
It feels so easy when you’re singing along

Gooba gooba, hey oh
Raise your hand and say ‘no’
Look up into the sky
Don’t you just know it, that’s a butterfly

It looked like too much to lose
If you found him down in Baton Rouge
He’d say: ‘God gave me the the gift.
Of being the one and only Huey ‘Piano’ Smith’

He gave it back to the Lord
When they gave all his money to Frankie Ford
He’d tell you, ‘that was a sign
I know what I’m missing and I feel fine.

I’ve given up rock and rolling
I was just a caterpillar crawling
Look up into the sky
Don’t you just know it, that’s a butterfly.’

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from Butterfly c​/​w Wanda Jackson (live), released October 6, 2023
© Jon Horne 2023

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Jon Horne Edinburgh, UK

Chronicling the folibles of the age via the medium of contemporary folk song since 2005.

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