I'm Gonna Get High - Tampa Red, The Chicago Five

I’m Gonna Get High Trk 6 Dsc 2 3:05 song 29

Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) And The Chicago Five

Aurora, Illinois, Oct. 11, 1937 Leland Hotel Top Floor

Tampa Red- vocal & guitar, unk — trumpet, Unk — tenor sax

Prob.

Blind John Davis — piano, unk drums.

2 Disc set RCA 07 863 66 722−2 1997 BMG

I’m gonna get high

And it ain’t no lie

And swing alone and have a ball

I’m gonna get high

Oh me, oh my Nobody know why

Oh m’baby, don’t you cry

I’m gonna get high

It ain’t no need of no one

Tryin' to shame me But what a state I’ve got in Who could blame me?

Oh, yes

I’m gonna get high

I’ll do it or die

And swing alone and have a ball

I’m gonna get high

'Yas, yas'

(instrumental)

'Beat it out for me, then'

'Ah-ha'

'I hear you Mr. Sax Player'

(sax)

'Yas, yas'

'Get that trumpet here'

'I hear you Mr. Ivory Man

'C'mon, do it again, please'

(trumpet)

Ah-ha

I’m gonna get high

And it ain’t no lie

And swing alone and have a ball

I’m gonna get high

Oh me, oh my Nobody know why

Oh m’baby, don’t you cry

I’m gonna get high

It ain’t no need of no one

Tryin' to shame me, yeah-yeah

But what a state I’ve got in Who could blame me?

Oh, yeah

Oh, I’m gonna get high

I’ll do it or die

And swing alone and have a ball

I’m gonna get high

'Zip it now'

'Yas, yas, yas'

'Ah-ha'

'Ah-yeah'

(piano)

'I hear ya'

'Ah-ha'

Yas, yas

Yas, yas

'Goin' out, boys'

Well, I’m gonna get high

I’ll do it or die

Swing alone and have a ball

I’m gonna get high, yas.