Lyrics and translation Jelly Roll Morton - Honky Tonk Blues
Well,
the
girls'd
start.
They'd
say,
Play
me
something
Eh
bien,
les
filles
commençaient.
Elles
disaient,
Joue-moi
quelque
chose
There,
boy,
play
me
some
blues.
So
they'd
start
Allez,
mon
garçon,
joue-moi
du
blues.
Alors
elles
commençaient
Playin'
in
this
way:
À
jouer
comme
ça
:
Honky
Tonk
Blues
Honky
Tonk
Blues
I
could
sit
right
here,
think
a
thousand
miles
away,
Je
pourrais
rester
assis
ici,
à
des
milliers
de
kilomètres
d'ici,
Sit
right
here,
think
a
thousand
miles
away,
Rester
assis
ici,
à
des
milliers
de
kilomètres
d'ici,
Since
I
had
the
blues
this
bad,
cannot
remember
the
Depuis
que
j'ai
le
blues
aussi
fort,
je
ne
me
souviens
plus
du
Day.
Jour.
Tell
me,
baby,
what
you
got
on
your
mind,
Dis-moi,
bébé,
à
quoi
tu
penses,
Tell
me,
baby,
what
you
got
on
your
mind,
Dis-moi,
bébé,
à
quoi
tu
penses,
I'm
eating
here
and
drinkin',
havin'
a
lovely
time.
Je
mange
ici
et
je
bois,
je
passe
un
moment
formidable.
Let
me
be
your
wiggler,
till
your
wobbler
comes,
Laisse-moi
être
ton
gigolo,
jusqu'à
ce
que
ton
homme
arrive,
Let
me
be
your
wiggler,
till
your
wobbler
comes,
Laisse-moi
être
ton
gigolo,
jusqu'à
ce
que
ton
homme
arrive,
You
tell
your
wobbler,
what
your
wiggler
done.
Tu
diras
à
ton
homme,
ce
que
ton
gigolo
a
fait.
I
never
believe
in
havin'
one
woman
at
a
time,
Je
n'ai
jamais
cru
avoir
une
seule
femme
à
la
fois,
I
never
believe
in
havin'
one
woman
at
a
time,
Je
n'ai
jamais
cru
avoir
une
seule
femme
à
la
fois,
I
always
have
six,
seven,
eight
or
nine.
J'en
ai
toujours
six,
sept,
huit
ou
neuf.
She
said,
Babe,
oh,
baby,
Elle
disait,
Bébé,
oh,
bébé,
Babe,
oh,
baby,
Bébé,
oh,
bébé,
You
bound
to
set
your
sweet
papa
cra.
. crazy.
Tu
vas
rendre
ton
gentil
papa
fou.
. fou.
Sometimes
they'd
have
good
lookin'.
. good
lookin'
Parfois,
il
y
avait
des
belles.
. de
belles
Women
of
all
kinds.
Beautiful
women,
some
was
ugly,
Femmes
de
toutes
sortes.
Des
femmes
magnifiques,
certaines
étaient
laides,
Very
ugly.
Some
looked
like
they
had
lips.
. lips
Très
laides.
Certaines
avaient
l'air
d'avoir
des
lèvres.
. des
lèvres
Looked
like
bumpers
on
a
boxcar.
Qui
ressemblaient
à
des
pare-chocs
de
wagon.
I'm
tellin'
you
they
had
all
kind
of
'em
dressed
up.
Je
te
dis
qu'elles
étaient
toutes
apprêtées.
Rags.
. rags
looked
like
ribbons
on
some
of
'em.
Des
guenilles.
. les
guenilles
ressemblaient
à
des
rubans
sur
certaines
d'entre
elles.
Some
of
'em
with
big
guns
in
their
bosoms.
It
was
the
Certaines
d'entre
elles
avec
de
gros
flingues
dans
leurs
corsages.
C'était
la
Law
in
New
Orleans
that
anybody
could
carry
a
gun
if
Loi
à
la
Nouvelle-Orléans
que
tout
le
monde
pouvait
porter
une
arme
s'il
They
wanted
— almost.
'Course
it
was
just
about
a
ten-
Le
voulait
— ou
presque.
Bien
sûr,
ce
n'était
qu'une
amende
d'environ
dix
Dollar
fine,
er,
didn't
make
very
much
difference.
And
Dollars,
enfin,
ça
ne
changeait
pas
grand-chose.
Et
If
they
found
you
ten
dollars.
. why,
your
sentence
S'ils
te
trouvaient
dix
dollars.
. eh
bien,
ta
peine
Would
be
thirty
days
in
jail.
And
possibly
they'd
put
Était
de
trente
jours
de
prison.
Et
il
était
possible
qu'ils
te
You
in
the
market
to
clean
up
the
market
in
the
Mettent
au
travail
pour
nettoyer
le
marché
le
Mornin'.
And
most
of
the
prisoners
would
always
run
Matin.
Et
la
plupart
des
prisonniers
s'enfuyaient
Away.
Toujours.
Rate the translation
1
The Great Buddy Bolden
2 Wining Boy Blues
3 Buddy Bertrand's Blues / Mamie's Blues
4 Jelly Roll Carves Saint Louis
5 Oh! Didn't He Ramble
6 Honky Tonk Blues
7 Michigan Water Blues
8 Ain't Misbehavin'
9 Aaron Harris, His Hoodoo Woman, and the Hat That Started a Riot
10 The Anamule Dance
11 Sweet Peter
12 Sweet Mamas and Sweet Papas
13 State and Madison
14 Sporting Life Costumes
15 Sporting Attire and Shooting the Agate
16 Spanish Swat
17 Slow Swing and "Sweet Jazz Music"
18 See See Rider
19 The Crave
20 Salty Dog / Bill Johnson, Jelly's Brother-in-Law
21 Poor Alfred Wilson
22 Playing Hot With Buddy Bolden
23 Pep
24 Parading With the Broadway Swells
25 Original Jelly Roll Blues
26 Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element
27 Of All His Mother's Children He Loved Jelly the Best
28 New Orleans Was a Free and Easy Place
29 Real Tough Boys
30 New Orleans Funerals
31 The Dirty Dozen
32 The Georgia Skin Game
33 Wolverine Blues
34 When the Hot Stuff Came In
35 Ungai Hai
36 Tony Jackson Was the Favorite / Dope, Crown, and Opium
37 Time In Mobile
38 Tiger Rag
39 The Style of Sammy Davis
40 The Story of the Coon Blues
41 The Story of the 1900 New Orleans
42 The First Hot Arrangements
43 The Story of Aaron Harris
44 The Story of "I'm Alabama Bound"
45 The Stomping Grounds
46 The St. Louis Scene
47 The Spanish Tinge
48 The Right Tempo Is the Accurate Tempo
49 The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Café
50 The Pearls
51 The Murder Ballad
52 The Main Idea In Jazz: "Just Watch Me" - Improvising and Reading Music
53 The Story of "King Porter Stomp"
54 New Orleans Blues
55 My Gal Sal
56 Music Lessons
57 High Society
58 Hestitation Blues
59 Guitar Blues
60 Game Kid Blues
61 Funeral Marches
62 Freakish
63 Fights and Weapons
64 Fickle Fay Creep
65 Honky Tonk Blues / In New Orleans, Anyone Could Carry a Gun
66 Creoles Playing With Negroes: Getting That Drive
67 Coon Blues
68 C'était N'aut' Can-Can, Payez Donc
69 Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician
70 Boogie Woogie Blues
71 Bert Williams
72 Benny Frenchy's Tune
73 Bad Men and Pimps
74 At the Cadillac Café, Los Angeles
75 Creepy Feeling
76 Hot Bands and Creole Tunes
77 How Jelly Roll Got His Name
78 How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar
79 Mr. Jelly Lord
80 Miserere
81 Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis Style / Maple Leaf Rag, New Orleans Style
82 Mamanita
83 Make Me a Pallett On the Floor
84 Luis Russell and New Orleans Riffs
85 Little Liza Jane, Continued / On the West Coast
86 King Porter Stomp
87 Kansas City Stomp
88 Jungle Blues
89 Jelly's Travels
90 Jelly Roll's Compositions
91 Jelly Roll's Background
92 Jazz Is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals, and Parades
93 Jazz Discords and Story of the Kansas City Stomp
94 In the Publishing Business
95 In Memphis: The Monarch Saloon and Benny Frenchy
96 Improving Spanish Tempos
97 I Hate a Man Like You / Rolling Stuff
98 Hyena Stomp
99 Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District
2 Wining Boy Blues
3 Buddy Bertrand's Blues / Mamie's Blues
4 Jelly Roll Carves Saint Louis
5 Oh! Didn't He Ramble
6 Honky Tonk Blues
7 Michigan Water Blues
8 Ain't Misbehavin'
9 Aaron Harris, His Hoodoo Woman, and the Hat That Started a Riot
10 The Anamule Dance
11 Sweet Peter
12 Sweet Mamas and Sweet Papas
13 State and Madison
14 Sporting Life Costumes
15 Sporting Attire and Shooting the Agate
16 Spanish Swat
17 Slow Swing and "Sweet Jazz Music"
18 See See Rider
19 The Crave
20 Salty Dog / Bill Johnson, Jelly's Brother-in-Law
21 Poor Alfred Wilson
22 Playing Hot With Buddy Bolden
23 Pep
24 Parading With the Broadway Swells
25 Original Jelly Roll Blues
26 Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element
27 Of All His Mother's Children He Loved Jelly the Best
28 New Orleans Was a Free and Easy Place
29 Real Tough Boys
30 New Orleans Funerals
31 The Dirty Dozen
32 The Georgia Skin Game
33 Wolverine Blues
34 When the Hot Stuff Came In
35 Ungai Hai
36 Tony Jackson Was the Favorite / Dope, Crown, and Opium
37 Time In Mobile
38 Tiger Rag
39 The Style of Sammy Davis
40 The Story of the Coon Blues
41 The Story of the 1900 New Orleans
42 The First Hot Arrangements
43 The Story of Aaron Harris
44 The Story of "I'm Alabama Bound"
45 The Stomping Grounds
46 The St. Louis Scene
47 The Spanish Tinge
48 The Right Tempo Is the Accurate Tempo
49 The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Café
50 The Pearls
51 The Murder Ballad
52 The Main Idea In Jazz: "Just Watch Me" - Improvising and Reading Music
53 The Story of "King Porter Stomp"
54 New Orleans Blues
55 My Gal Sal
56 Music Lessons
57 High Society
58 Hestitation Blues
59 Guitar Blues
60 Game Kid Blues
61 Funeral Marches
62 Freakish
63 Fights and Weapons
64 Fickle Fay Creep
65 Honky Tonk Blues / In New Orleans, Anyone Could Carry a Gun
66 Creoles Playing With Negroes: Getting That Drive
67 Coon Blues
68 C'était N'aut' Can-Can, Payez Donc
69 Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician
70 Boogie Woogie Blues
71 Bert Williams
72 Benny Frenchy's Tune
73 Bad Men and Pimps
74 At the Cadillac Café, Los Angeles
75 Creepy Feeling
76 Hot Bands and Creole Tunes
77 How Jelly Roll Got His Name
78 How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar
79 Mr. Jelly Lord
80 Miserere
81 Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis Style / Maple Leaf Rag, New Orleans Style
82 Mamanita
83 Make Me a Pallett On the Floor
84 Luis Russell and New Orleans Riffs
85 Little Liza Jane, Continued / On the West Coast
86 King Porter Stomp
87 Kansas City Stomp
88 Jungle Blues
89 Jelly's Travels
90 Jelly Roll's Compositions
91 Jelly Roll's Background
92 Jazz Is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals, and Parades
93 Jazz Discords and Story of the Kansas City Stomp
94 In the Publishing Business
95 In Memphis: The Monarch Saloon and Benny Frenchy
96 Improving Spanish Tempos
97 I Hate a Man Like You / Rolling Stuff
98 Hyena Stomp
99 Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District
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