People Don't Understand The Kind Of Fight

I Joined Count Basie's Band To Make A Little Money And To See The World. For Two Years I Didn't See Anything But The Inside Of A Blue Goose Bus, And I Never Got To Send Home A Quarter.

One Day A Whole Damn Song Fell Into Place In My Head.

Mom And Pop Were Just A Couple Of Kids When They Got Married. He Was Eighteen, She Was Sixteen And I Was Three.

And When You're Poor, You Grow Up Fast.

You Can Be Up To Your Boobies In White Satin, With Gardenias In Your Hair And No Sugar Cane For Miles, But You Can Still Be Working On A Plantation.