Ain't Nothing Cooler Than The Blues

True story, for the most part. Guy was blowing all kinds of riffs with a boom box next to him, and this elderly gentleman told him "Man, there ain't nothing cooler than the blues." Damn right. I'm not talking about hip, exciting, complex, innovative, or world changing. Just cool.

As I was walking down 47th Street Cat was blowing saxophone to a hip hop beat Old man came up to him, said "Let me clue you in, You can't know where you're going, if you don't know where you've been" There ain't nothing cooler than the blues There ain't nothing cooler than the blues You can play anything you choose But there ain't nothing cooler than the blues That cat said "Look here, Pops, you don't know what you're saying This is the hippest thing, if you dig what I'm playing" Old man said "Listen son, I've seen hip come and go If you want to talk about cool, there's just one thing I know" There ain't nothing cooler than the blues There ain't nothing cooler than the blues You can play anything you choose But there ain't nothing cooler than the blues Hip hop, new wave, rock and roll Be bop, disco, funk and soul They all sounding mighty fine But one thing gets 'em every time That cat was flipping, man, he started turning red He didn't understand a thing that old man said He grabbed his saxophone and walked the other way I saw him flipping burgers in Chunk y Jeez the other day Man, there ain't nothing cooler than the blues There ain't nothing cooler than the blues You can play anything you choose But there ain't nothing cooler than the blues There ain't nothing cooler than the blues There ain't nothing cooler than the blues You can play anything you choose Man, you can play a thrash metal gangsta rap hip hop cd101 neuvo jazz alternative grunge r&b dance new country teenage anthem But there ain't nothing cooler than the blues

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