Chords for Lou Sino - Louis Prima, Sam Butera and the Witnesses - Waitin' On the Robert E Lee

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Louis, _ _ so ambitious it was unreal. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Yeah.
_ _ He knew what he wanted _ _ and _ he had an
uncanny way of by getting what he wanted too.
A few times you know, _ oversleep,
[Gb] coming late and when he introduced the guys in the band you know, at the end of the
show he would say Sam Viettaro, [G] _ Keely Smith, the whole bit and when he'd get to
me he'd say, and that guy.
_ _ _ _ And this, you know, he kept me like that for about a
week.
And we're sitting in a room, quiet, and he says, okay let me hear you play
shuffle rhythm.
So I started.
_ I said, wait a minute, _ _ I didn't give you a downbeat yet.
The chief never gave you a downbeat yet.
I said, oh excuse me. _
So he gave me the
downbeat.
_ That was the first thing I learned about Louis.
Don't do nothing
till he tells you.
If he didn't see the audience he couldn't work.
I mean he
could work but he couldn't tell what they wanted, you know.
_ [Bb] He had to see if
they were enjoying it, what they liked or what they didn't like.
That was his success.
He could read the people.
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_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
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[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Eb] See them shuffling along.
_ _ See them [Bb] shuffling along. _
Go take your best gal, real pal.
[Eb] Go down to Levy, _ say Levy, join that shuffling troupe. _
_ [Bb] _ He's a handsome, _ he's simply great mate.
Waitin' on Levy, waitin' for the [Eb] floppy. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Watch _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
them shuffling along.
[D] _ _ [C] See [Bb] them shuffling along.
Go take your best gal, real pal.
[Eb] Go down to _ [Eb] _ Levy, say Levy, join that shuffling troupe.
_ _ He's [Bb]
a handsome, _ _ he's simply great [Eb] mate.
Waitin' on Levy, waitin' for the floppy.
I [Ab] believe.
_ [Eb] _ _
Waitin' on [Bb] Levy, waitin' on Levy. _
_ _ _ [Eb] I believe. _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] I believe. _
[Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I [Eb] believe. _ _ _ _ _ _
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It [G] _ was like magic. _
It was like magic.
_ _ You got on a high from just being there. _