A Poem -- God Plays Bass
Created | Updated Jul 13, 2005
God Plays Bass
Hard Bop’s flowing out a barrelhouse door
In the sun, wind and rain,
Two musicians chart and stride
Who’s that you say?
Well, You know the Devil with his guitar and fiddles
But looky here why that’s Divineness on the Bass.
Y’all heard tale how the Devil plays prestissimo
Always scatting an ballin’ up the beat
But, God’s Bass riffs are set in largo
Cuz cool jazz sounds so Phat
His low pulsing boogie just sits there in the groove
That Devils been tailgating at the Crossroads
Cuz old Robert Johnson was look’n to gig eternity
Guitarist dueling with the Devil a work song rhapsody
Till the Devil lost to scale ‘in by a classical progeny
Now, God keeps groove’n a Psalmody
Gut confidence in his center
His pizzicato dynamics-running bottom’s up
Absent any vibrato digs that silence is still a note
Man, his Bass lines never can be beat
Nocturnes in dissonance jives primordial bars
Phrase and pitch all ripples no bars and measures true
A Bass note stuck in Forte an opening chord or two
Thaw-thump! Thaw-Thump! Thaw-Thump!
Comes the Tone Poem to the score
Perceive his milieu bass notes!
Three notes theme the movement just waiting on a score
God’s fundamental frequencies sets the tempo of each bar
Laying down some tracks each measure a light year long
Yes, we’re all here cuz the Man was Jassing up the deep
God’s bass lines are the cool school that created reality
Striding downbeats by the meter long before luminosity
Till his concerto prodigy blasted forth a Star
Nothing but a Bass line from time eternity
That music forms a triad of tertial harmonies
Just a chill’ in the loft scene now called the Holy Trinity
What started as a bass note gave life to you and me!
Yes, we’re talking creation
Life, the Universe and Everything!
God’s Cosmic Gigantic Bass Note,
Implanted in our nature a noble faculty
The voice came by virtue of the bass cliff
Scored in consonants no melody
So, scat the words if you haft to
As long as you keep in harmony
So, Stop jive talk’n cause music’s in our soul
We’re all in this together the fiddler, you and me
Let’s all make the connection to the Harmonics
We can swing in syncopation just remember to keep the code
Life is a song, says Yidl shmiddle
It’s coolness in our solo’s, cakewalks, forms and modes
Even dissonant running countermelody
Will return us to his groove
Cause
God Plays Bass
That’s right man
God Plays Bass
So what’s you say?
God Plays Bass
Come’ on
Let me hear you say it
God Plays Bass
Ooooooh yeaaaaaaaa!
Thaw thump
Thaw thump
Thaw Thump
Thaw Thump
Thaw Thump
Hard Bop’s flowing out a barrelhouse door
In the sun, wind and rain,
Two musicians chart and stride
Who’s that you say?
Well, You know the Devil with his guitar and fiddles
But looky here why that’s Divineness on the Bass.
Y’all heard tale how the Devil plays prestissimo
Always scatting an ballin’ up the beat
But, God’s Bass riffs are set in largo
Cuz cool jazz sounds so Phat
His low pulsing boogie just sits there in the groove
That Devils been tailgating at the Crossroads
Cuz old Robert Johnson was look’n to gig eternity
Guitarist dueling with the Devil a work song rhapsody
Till the Devil lost to scale ‘in by a classical progeny
Now, God keeps groove’n a Psalmody
Gut confidence in his center
His pizzicato dynamics-running bottom’s up
Absent any vibrato digs that silence is still a note
Man, his Bass lines never can be beat
Nocturnes in dissonance jives primordial bars
Phrase and pitch all ripples no bars and measures true
A Bass note stuck in Forte an opening chord or two
Thaw-thump! Thaw-Thump! Thaw-Thump!
Comes the Tone Poem to the score
Perceive his milieu bass notes!
Three notes theme the movement just waiting on a score
God’s fundamental frequencies sets the tempo of each bar
Laying down some tracks each measure a light year long
Yes, we’re all here cuz the Man was Jassing up the deep
God’s bass lines are the cool school that created reality
Striding downbeats by the meter long before luminosity
Till his concerto prodigy blasted forth a Star
Nothing but a Bass line from time eternity
That music forms a triad of tertial harmonies
Just a chill’ in the loft scene now called the Holy Trinity
What started as a bass note gave life to you and me!
Yes, we’re talking creation
Life, the Universe and Everything!
God’s Cosmic Gigantic Bass Note,
Implanted in our nature a noble faculty
The voice came by virtue of the bass cliff
Scored in consonants no melody
So, scat the words if you haft to
As long as you keep in harmony
So, Stop jive talk’n cause music’s in our soul
We’re all in this together the fiddler, you and me
Let’s all make the connection to the Harmonics
We can swing in syncopation just remember to keep the code
Life is a song, says Yidl shmiddle
It’s coolness in our solo’s, cakewalks, forms and modes
Even dissonant running countermelody
Will return us to his groove
Cause
God Plays Bass
That’s right man
God Plays Bass
So what’s you say?
God Plays Bass
Come’ on
Let me hear you say it
God Plays Bass
Ooooooh yeaaaaaaaa!
Thaw thump
Thaw thump
Thaw Thump
Thaw Thump
Thaw Thump
