Lyrics and translation Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra - Diga Diga Do
Zulu
man
is
feelin'
blue
Mon
cœur
Zulu
est
plein
de
tristesse
Gear
his
heart
beat
a
little
tattoo
Il
bat
comme
un
petit
tatouage
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
You
love
me
and
I
love
you
Tu
m'aimes
et
je
t'aime
And
when
you
love
it
is
natural
to
Et
quand
on
aime,
c'est
naturel
de
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
I'm
so
very
diga
diga
doo
by
nature
Je
suis
tellement
diga
diga
doo
par
nature
If
you
don't
say
diga
diga
to
your
mate
Si
tu
ne
dis
pas
diga
diga
à
ton
compagnon
You're
gonna
lose
a
papa.
Tu
vas
perdre
un
papa.
So
let
those
funny
people
smile
Alors
laisse
ces
gens
amusants
sourire
How
can
there
be
a
Virgin
isle
Comment
peut-il
y
avoir
une
île
Vierge
With
diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
doo
Avec
diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
No
one
heeds
the
marriage
laws
Personne
ne
respecte
les
lois
du
mariage
Yours
is
mine
and
mine
is
yours
Le
tien
est
mien
et
le
mien
est
tien
With
diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
doo
Avec
diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
Diga
diga
doo
diga
doo
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Diga Diga Do
2 So Far, So Good
3 Rumpus in Richmond
4 There Shall Be No Night
5 Stompy Jones
6 You, You Darlin'
7 Warm Valley
8 The Sidewalks of New York
9 That's the Blues, Old Man
10 Washington Wabble
11 The Duke Steps Out
12 The Mystery Song
13 Ring Dem Bells
14 Morning Glory
15 Conga Brava
16 Concerto for Cootie
17 Me and You
18 Bojangles (alternate take)
19 Cottontail
20 Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore)
21 Blue Goose
22 Bojangles
23 A Portrait of Bert Williams
24 Harlem Airshaft
25 At a Dixie Roadside Diner
26 All Too Soon
27 My Greatest Mistake
28 Jack the Bear
29 My Old Flame
30 Bugle Call Rag
31 Maori (A Samoan Dance)
32 Blue Feeling
33 Live and Love Tonight
34 Dinah
35 In a Mellow Tone
36 A Lull at Dawn (alternate take)
37 My Sunday Gal
38 Five O'Clock Whistle
39 Across the Track Blues
40 Chloe (Song of the Swamp)
41 Day Dream
42 Good Queen Bess
43 John Hardy's Wife
44 Mood Indigo / Hot and Bothered / Creole Love Call
45 Japanese Dream
46 Harlemania
47 A Night at the Cotton Club, Part 1 / Cotton Club Stomp / Misty Mornin'
48 Mississippi
49 Creole Love Call
50 It's Glory
51 Haunted Nights
52 Ready Eddy (breakdown)
53 Ready Eddy (false start)
54 Ready Eddy (take 2)
55 The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You (take 1)
56 The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You (take 2)
57 Jumpin' Punkins (take 1)
58 Jumpin' Punkins (take 2)
59 Sepia Panorama (take 1)
60 Sepia Panorama (take 2)
61 Mobile Bay (take 1)
62 Mobile Bay (take 2)
63 Linger Awhile (take 1)
64 Linger Awhile (take 2)
65 Charlie the Chulo (take 2)
66 Charlie the Chulo (alternate take)
67 Charlie the Chulo (take 1)
68 Lament for Javanette (alternate take)
69 Lament for Javanette (take 1a)
70 A Lull at Dawn (take 1a)
71 Ready Eddy (take 1)
72 Without a Song (take 2)
73 Junior Hop (take 2)
74 Pitter Panther Patter (take 1)
75 Pitter Panther Patter (take 2)
76 Body and Soul (take 1)
77 Body and Soul (take 2)
78 Body and Soul (take 3)
79 Mr. J. B. Blues (take 1)
80 Mr. J. B. Blues (take 2)
81 The Flaming Sword (take 1)
82 The Flaming Sword (take 2)
83 The Flaming Sword (take 3)
84 Warm Valley (take 2)
85 Warm Valley (take 3)
86 I Never Felt This Way Before (take 1)
87 I Never Felt This Way Before (take 2)
88 Good Queen Bess (alternate take)
89 Junior Hop (take 1)
90 Without a Song (take 1)
91 Swanee Shuffle
92 Ring Dem Bells (take 2)
93 Ring Dem Bells (take 3)
94 Old Man Blues (take 1)
95 Old Man Blues (take 2)
96 Old Man Blues (take 3)
97 Old Man Blues (take 4)
98 Old Man Blues (take 6)
99 Ko-Ko (take 2)
100 Dusk (take 1)
101 Dusk (take 2)
102 Ko-Ko (take 1)
103 Rude Interlude (take 1)
104 Rude Interlude (take 2)
105 Dallas Doings (take 1)
106 Dallas Doings (take 2)
107 Dear Old Southland (take 1)
108 Dear Old Southland (take 2)
109 Daybreak Express (take 1)
110 Daybreak Express (take 2)
111 Delta Serenade (take 1)
112 Delta Serenade (take 2)
113 Cocktails for Two (take 1)
114 Cocktails for Two (take 2)
115 Troubled Waters (take 1)
116 Troubled Waters (take 2)
117 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo / Lot o' Fingers / Black and Tan Fantasy (stereo version)
118 A Night at the Cotton Club, Part 2 / Goin' to Town / Untitled Interlude / Freeze and Melt
119 Washington Wabble (take 1)
120 Washington Wabble (take 2)
121 Blues I Love to Sing (take 1)
122 Blues I Love to Sing (take 2) (alternate take)
123 Harlem River Quiver (take 1)
124 Harlem River Quiver (take 2)
125 Harlem River Quiver (take 3)
126 Blue Bubbles (take 1)
127 Blue Bubbles (take 2)
128 Mood Indigo / Hot and Bothered / Creole Love Call (stereo version)
129 Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 (take 3)
130 Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 (take 2)
131 The Mystery Song (alternate take)
132 I'm So in Love With You (take 1)
133 I'm So in Love With You (take 2)
134 Blue Again
135 Mood Indigo
136 Solitude (take 1)
137 Solitude (take 2)
138 If You Can't Hold the Man You Love (Don't Cry When He's Gone)
139 St. Louis Blues (take 3)
140 Flaming Youth (take 2)
141 Flaming Youth (take 1)
142 Saturday Night Function
143 High Life
144 Doin' the Voom Voom (take 1)
145 Doin' the Voom Voom (take 2)
146 The Dicty Glide (take 1)
147 The Dicty Glide (take 2)
148 Hot Feet
149 St. Louis Blues (take 2)
150 Sloppy Joe (take 1)
151 Sloppy Joe (take 2)
152 Stevedore Stomp
153 Cotton Club Stomp
154 Misty Mornin'
155 Arabian Lover
156 Saratoga Swing
157 St. Louis Blues (take 1)
158 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
159 Black Beauty
160 Got Everything but You
161 Santa Claus Bring My Man Back
162 I Can't Give You Anything But Love (alternate take)
163 I Done Caught You Blues
164 No, Papa, No
165 No, Papa, No (alternate take)
166 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
167 Bandanna Babies
168 I Must Have That Man
169 Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee (take 2)
170 What Good Am I Without You? (alternate take)
171 When a Black Man's Blue (alternate take)
172 What Good Am I Without You?
173 When a Black Man's Blue
174 The River and Me
175 Keep a Song in Your Soul
176 Rockin' in Rhythm (take 1)
177 Rockin' in Rhythm (take 2)
178 Limehouse Blues
179 Echoes of the Jungle
180 Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee (take 1)
181 Memories of You
182 Hittin' the Bottle (take 2)
183 Breakfast Dance
184 Jazz Lips
185 March of the Hoodlums
186 Double Check Stomp
187 My Gal Is Good for Nothing but Love
188 I Was Made to Love You
189 Sweet Dreams of Love (take 1)
190 Sweet Dreams of Love (take 2)
191 Jungle Nights In Harlem
192 Sweet Jazz o' Mine (take 1)
193 Sweet Jazz o' Mine (take 2)
194 Shout 'em, Aunt Tillie
195 Hittin' the Bottle (take 1)
196 You're Lucky to Me
2 So Far, So Good
3 Rumpus in Richmond
4 There Shall Be No Night
5 Stompy Jones
6 You, You Darlin'
7 Warm Valley
8 The Sidewalks of New York
9 That's the Blues, Old Man
10 Washington Wabble
11 The Duke Steps Out
12 The Mystery Song
13 Ring Dem Bells
14 Morning Glory
15 Conga Brava
16 Concerto for Cootie
17 Me and You
18 Bojangles (alternate take)
19 Cottontail
20 Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore)
21 Blue Goose
22 Bojangles
23 A Portrait of Bert Williams
24 Harlem Airshaft
25 At a Dixie Roadside Diner
26 All Too Soon
27 My Greatest Mistake
28 Jack the Bear
29 My Old Flame
30 Bugle Call Rag
31 Maori (A Samoan Dance)
32 Blue Feeling
33 Live and Love Tonight
34 Dinah
35 In a Mellow Tone
36 A Lull at Dawn (alternate take)
37 My Sunday Gal
38 Five O'Clock Whistle
39 Across the Track Blues
40 Chloe (Song of the Swamp)
41 Day Dream
42 Good Queen Bess
43 John Hardy's Wife
44 Mood Indigo / Hot and Bothered / Creole Love Call
45 Japanese Dream
46 Harlemania
47 A Night at the Cotton Club, Part 1 / Cotton Club Stomp / Misty Mornin'
48 Mississippi
49 Creole Love Call
50 It's Glory
51 Haunted Nights
52 Ready Eddy (breakdown)
53 Ready Eddy (false start)
54 Ready Eddy (take 2)
55 The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You (take 1)
56 The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You (take 2)
57 Jumpin' Punkins (take 1)
58 Jumpin' Punkins (take 2)
59 Sepia Panorama (take 1)
60 Sepia Panorama (take 2)
61 Mobile Bay (take 1)
62 Mobile Bay (take 2)
63 Linger Awhile (take 1)
64 Linger Awhile (take 2)
65 Charlie the Chulo (take 2)
66 Charlie the Chulo (alternate take)
67 Charlie the Chulo (take 1)
68 Lament for Javanette (alternate take)
69 Lament for Javanette (take 1a)
70 A Lull at Dawn (take 1a)
71 Ready Eddy (take 1)
72 Without a Song (take 2)
73 Junior Hop (take 2)
74 Pitter Panther Patter (take 1)
75 Pitter Panther Patter (take 2)
76 Body and Soul (take 1)
77 Body and Soul (take 2)
78 Body and Soul (take 3)
79 Mr. J. B. Blues (take 1)
80 Mr. J. B. Blues (take 2)
81 The Flaming Sword (take 1)
82 The Flaming Sword (take 2)
83 The Flaming Sword (take 3)
84 Warm Valley (take 2)
85 Warm Valley (take 3)
86 I Never Felt This Way Before (take 1)
87 I Never Felt This Way Before (take 2)
88 Good Queen Bess (alternate take)
89 Junior Hop (take 1)
90 Without a Song (take 1)
91 Swanee Shuffle
92 Ring Dem Bells (take 2)
93 Ring Dem Bells (take 3)
94 Old Man Blues (take 1)
95 Old Man Blues (take 2)
96 Old Man Blues (take 3)
97 Old Man Blues (take 4)
98 Old Man Blues (take 6)
99 Ko-Ko (take 2)
100 Dusk (take 1)
101 Dusk (take 2)
102 Ko-Ko (take 1)
103 Rude Interlude (take 1)
104 Rude Interlude (take 2)
105 Dallas Doings (take 1)
106 Dallas Doings (take 2)
107 Dear Old Southland (take 1)
108 Dear Old Southland (take 2)
109 Daybreak Express (take 1)
110 Daybreak Express (take 2)
111 Delta Serenade (take 1)
112 Delta Serenade (take 2)
113 Cocktails for Two (take 1)
114 Cocktails for Two (take 2)
115 Troubled Waters (take 1)
116 Troubled Waters (take 2)
117 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo / Lot o' Fingers / Black and Tan Fantasy (stereo version)
118 A Night at the Cotton Club, Part 2 / Goin' to Town / Untitled Interlude / Freeze and Melt
119 Washington Wabble (take 1)
120 Washington Wabble (take 2)
121 Blues I Love to Sing (take 1)
122 Blues I Love to Sing (take 2) (alternate take)
123 Harlem River Quiver (take 1)
124 Harlem River Quiver (take 2)
125 Harlem River Quiver (take 3)
126 Blue Bubbles (take 1)
127 Blue Bubbles (take 2)
128 Mood Indigo / Hot and Bothered / Creole Love Call (stereo version)
129 Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 (take 3)
130 Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 (take 2)
131 The Mystery Song (alternate take)
132 I'm So in Love With You (take 1)
133 I'm So in Love With You (take 2)
134 Blue Again
135 Mood Indigo
136 Solitude (take 1)
137 Solitude (take 2)
138 If You Can't Hold the Man You Love (Don't Cry When He's Gone)
139 St. Louis Blues (take 3)
140 Flaming Youth (take 2)
141 Flaming Youth (take 1)
142 Saturday Night Function
143 High Life
144 Doin' the Voom Voom (take 1)
145 Doin' the Voom Voom (take 2)
146 The Dicty Glide (take 1)
147 The Dicty Glide (take 2)
148 Hot Feet
149 St. Louis Blues (take 2)
150 Sloppy Joe (take 1)
151 Sloppy Joe (take 2)
152 Stevedore Stomp
153 Cotton Club Stomp
154 Misty Mornin'
155 Arabian Lover
156 Saratoga Swing
157 St. Louis Blues (take 1)
158 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
159 Black Beauty
160 Got Everything but You
161 Santa Claus Bring My Man Back
162 I Can't Give You Anything But Love (alternate take)
163 I Done Caught You Blues
164 No, Papa, No
165 No, Papa, No (alternate take)
166 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
167 Bandanna Babies
168 I Must Have That Man
169 Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee (take 2)
170 What Good Am I Without You? (alternate take)
171 When a Black Man's Blue (alternate take)
172 What Good Am I Without You?
173 When a Black Man's Blue
174 The River and Me
175 Keep a Song in Your Soul
176 Rockin' in Rhythm (take 1)
177 Rockin' in Rhythm (take 2)
178 Limehouse Blues
179 Echoes of the Jungle
180 Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee (take 1)
181 Memories of You
182 Hittin' the Bottle (take 2)
183 Breakfast Dance
184 Jazz Lips
185 March of the Hoodlums
186 Double Check Stomp
187 My Gal Is Good for Nothing but Love
188 I Was Made to Love You
189 Sweet Dreams of Love (take 1)
190 Sweet Dreams of Love (take 2)
191 Jungle Nights In Harlem
192 Sweet Jazz o' Mine (take 1)
193 Sweet Jazz o' Mine (take 2)
194 Shout 'em, Aunt Tillie
195 Hittin' the Bottle (take 1)
196 You're Lucky to Me
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