Jenny

Mildred Bailey, The Delta Rhythm Boys

About Jenny

"The Saga of Jenny" is a popular song written for the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, considered now as a standard blues. The music is marked "Allegretto quasi andantino"; Gershwin describes it as "a sort of blues bordello". It was premiered by Gertrude Lawrence in the role of Liza Elliott, the editor of a fashion magazine. In the context of the show, the song comes in a dream sequence in which Elliott defends her indecision about marriage by telling the tale of "a girl named Jenny/Whose virtues were varied and many—/Excepting that she was inclined/Always to make up her mind", until she "kicked the bucket at 76. " Jenny's decisive nature is blamed for multiple disasters, including forcing the necessity of the United States' Good Neighbor Policy. The moral of the song is "don't make up your mind." It followed the Danny Kaye song "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)", and in Kaye's original recording, he sings the passages about Liza Elliot's inability to make up her mind. 


Year:
2003
3:18
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Carolina, no, no, jenny
Carolina, no, no, jenny
Carolina, no, no, jenny
Carolina, no, no

What's her name
Jenny she's blowing my mind
A love like yours is hard to find
Jenny she's blowing my mind
A love like yours is hard to find
Carolina left me and gone
Went to number one and now she kicked up a storm
Who big her up now me and robert and shaun
Whole heap of entertainer come come step pan me corn
Now she was a top ten lady from the time she was born
But she went and played me now my love is gone
Oh I got a new lady and she's got it going on
And on and on and on and on and on and on
So weh me say

Shag you went number one took top gun
How they riding you every boys deciding to
Stop the track get trough you what the hell
Oh your gun solar mill competition got to chill ill
Carolina you all run down
Shaggy's not around do you know how you sound
Coming over here asking for him
Well I got drama for you poor he got another girlfriend

Carolina was so fine blew everybody's mind
More expensive than a bottle of chardonnay wine
Aged to perfection and so refine(me)
Every man want a taste 'cause your grapes are fine
Well me love your sexy rhythm and the way it rhyme
Booddy by by oh my my I love you and that's no lie
But you lived up to your title ho! Caroline, ha ha

Yeah, mad cash be spending
And thanks to you he got law suits pending
But that's alright cause he's lamping bossing spanking
Cashing checks stacking crazy banking
He's got jennifer on his mind 
He can't see you so see you
I got no more time

Carolina left me and gone
Went to number one and now she kicked up a storm
Who big her up now me and Robert and Shaun
Whole heap of entertainer come and step pan me corn
Now she was a top ten lady from the time she was born
But she went and played me now my love is gone
Oh I got my new lady and she's got it going on
And on and on and on and on and on and on
So weh

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Mildred Bailey

Mildred Rinker Bailey (February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a popular and influential American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "The Queen of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs. Swing". Some of her best known hits are "It's So Peaceful in the Country", "Trust In Me", "Where Are You", "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart", "Small Fry", "Please Be Kind", "Darn That Dream", "Rockin' Chair", "Blame It On My Last Affair", and "Says My Heart". more »

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Written by: IRA GERSHWIN, KURT WEILL

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