Lyrics and translation Duke Ellington - Things Ain't What They Used to Be [Alternate Take] (Remastered)

Things Ain't What They Used to Be [Alternate Take] (Remastered)

Les choses ne sont plus ce qu'elles étaient [Prise alternative] (Remasterisé)

Got so weary of bein' nothin',

J'étais tellement fatigué d'être rien,

Felt so dreary just doin' nothin'

Je me sentais tellement déprimé à ne rien faire

Didn't care ever gettin' nothin', felt so low

Je m'en fichais de ne rien obtenir, je me sentais tellement bas

Now my eyes on the far horizon can see a glow

Maintenant, mes yeux sur l'horizon lointain peuvent voir une lueur

Announcin' things ain't what they used to be.

Annonçant que les choses ne sont plus ce qu'elles étaient.

No use bein' a doubtin' Thomas,

Inutile d'être un Thomas incrédule,

No ignorin' that rosy promise;

N'ignore pas cette promesse rose ;

Now I know there's a happy story yet to come.

Maintenant, je sais qu'il y a une belle histoire à venir.

It's the dawn of a day of glory: millennium

C'est l'aube d'un jour de gloire : le millénaire

I tell you things ain't what they used to be.

Je te dis que les choses ne sont plus ce qu'elles étaient.

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Writer(s): Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons

Album

Rocks In My Bed - the Complete Recordings 1941 - 1945

date of release

19-06-2009

1 Perdido (Remastered)
2 Don't You Know I Care (Remastered)
3 Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin' (Remastered)
4 Five O'clock Drag (Remastered)
5 C Jam Blues [Alternate Take] (Remastered)
6 I'm Beginning to See the Light (Remastered)
7 Things Ain't What They Used to Be [Alternate Take 2] (Remastered)
8 Things Ain't What They Used to Be [Alternate Take] (Remastered)
9 Carnegie Blues (Remastered)
10 Black, Brown and Beige - Part 2 (Remastered)
11 Black, Brown and Beige - Part 1 (Remastered)
12 The Mood to Be Wooed [Alternate Take] (Remastered)
13 I Ain't Go Nothing But the Blues (Remastered)
14 Rain Check (Remastered)
15 June (Remastered)
16 Everything But You (Remastered)
17 I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got (Remastered)
18 The blues (Remastered)
19 What Am I Here For? (Remastered)
20 Subtle Slough (Remastered)
21 Moon Over Cuba (Remastered)
22 Ain't Got Nothing But the Blues (Remastered)
23 Hop Skip Jump (Remastered)
24 Goin' Out the Back Way (Remastered)
25 Chelsea Bridge (Remastered)
26 Come Sunday (Remastered)
27 Some Saturday (Remastered)
28 Rocks In My Bed (Remastered)
29 Sherman Shuffle (Remastered)
30 Kandylamb (Remastered)
31 Johnny Come Lately (Remastered)
32 Chocolate Shake (Remastered)
33 Blue Serge (Remastered)
34 I Don't Mind (Remastered)
35 Brown Suede (Remastered)
36 C Jam Blues (Remastered)
37 Squaty Roo (Remastered)
38 Poor Bubber (Remastered)
39 My Little Brown Book (Remastered)
40 My Little Brown Book [Alternate Take] (Remastered)
41 Moon mist (Remastered)
42 I Didn't Know About You (Remastered)
43 Dear Old Southland (Remastered)
44 Brown Skin Gal (In the Calico Gown) (Remastered)
45 Bakiff (Remastered)
46 Passion flower (Remastered)
47 Mood to Be Wooed (Remastered)
48 My Heart Sings (Remastered)
49 Menelik: the Lion of Judah (Remastered)
50 Boy Meets Horn (Remastered)
51 Are You Sticking? (Remastered)
52 Clementine (Remastered)
53 Perfume Suite, Pt. 1: Under the Balcony / Strange Feeling (Remastered)
54 Someone (Remastered)
55 Work Song (Remastered)
56 The Giddybug Gallop (Remastered)
57 The 'C' Jam Blues (Remastered)
58 Bli-Blip (Remastered)
59 Blue Cellophane (Remastered)
60 John Hardy's Wife (Remastered)
61 The Kissing Bug (Remastered)
62 What Good Would It Do? (Remastered)
63 After All - Remastered
64 A Slip of the Lip (Remastered)
65 Three Dances (Remastered)
66 Solitude (Remastered)
67 Main Stem [Alternate Take] (Remastered)
68 Bug In a Rug (Remastered)
69 Carnegie Blues [Alternate Take] (Remastered)
70 Main stem (Remastered)
71 I Git It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Remastered)
72 The Mood to Be Wooed (Remastered)
73 Hayfoot, Strawfoot (Remastered)
74 Noir Bleu (Remastered)

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