Kurt Elling - Intro - Goin' To Chicago - Live

Kishore Kumar Hits — Kurt Elling - Intro - Goin' To Chicago - Live lyrics

Artist: Kurt Elling

album: Live in New York

We're gonna play a composition for you now that uhm
It's a vincement dose of his uhm
And there's a little story about how the lyrics came into being
It's a brand-new lyric that I wrote and when I first heard
Uh when I first heard the piece
I thought well, uhm, what a beautiful
What a beautiful melody
Uhm, and I thought that the title of the tune was
Esperanto!
Which of course, it's the, you know, the universal language
That they invented so we can all speak together
At the same time
And so I, well, well, came up with this whole lyrical idea
And uh, went to Pablo Neruda and I got all these, uhm, you know
Excellent ideas for things, you know uh
And then of course I finished the whole lyrics and
I realized that the title of the tune was Esperanza
Which is a Portuguese word for hope
Which is also cool
It works, you know in the context of a
When he was going for lunch, sure
Uh, but the redeeming of value is this
When you write a lyric for a previously recorded tune, my lawyer tells me
And it's time to record this tune, you have to think of
A new title for the tune
So uh, here is Esperanto
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