The Lonesome Road

Lyrics

(Lonesome road Before you travel on) Sing louder, sing louder Now sisters and brothers This is Reverend Satchmo Armstrong Gonna speak to you this evening And I ain't gonna keep you here long I just wanna introduce some of the brothers We have a little creole member here Or rather, our new deacon He wanna say something to this congregation He's none other than the creole boy Little Satchmo, John Lindsay, say something [John Lindsay] Now sisters and brothers We wants to pick up a good collection here tonight For brother Armstrong Come on with it if you're coming Oh, you dog And if you ever get it, brother Lindsay Please don't put it in your pocket, will ya? Thank you (Amen) Oh drop it in there, brother Jack Randolph Thank you Now, how'd you do brother Preston and brother Randolph Why, here's the three sax boys: Little George James, Al Washington and Lester Boone Why, there's Charlie Alexander here And Reverend Johnny Lindsay And, why here's two little songwriters here Little Louis Dunlap and Charles Carpenter And what do you think about that? They're smoking a Louis Armstrong special More power to you, boys Hello Professor Sherman Cook How are you brother? He's looking all prosperous, he's a New Orleans boy Oh, swing on brother Washington Have you anything to say, brother Mike McKendrick? [Mike McKendrick] W-w-w-w-well I-I-I, nothin' Thank you, ha ha ha Yes sir, Randolph, what do you say, Randolph? [Zilner Randolph] Brother Armstrong, I haven't got my dole money yet You better go home Oh my goodness, what kind of church is this? What kind of church is this? I've got to get some of this I've gotta take one of these choruses Give me some of this (Swing it, brother Armstrong) [Trumpet solo: Louis Armstrong] Look out now, brothers and sisters I thank you for your little offering Of course it could have been better Two dollars more would have gotten my shoes out of pawn But nevertheless I'm in love with you! (Scream) Hold that, sister but get off of my foot! (Oh, Brother Armstrong, you're killing me!) Now, look down that lonesome road Oh, look down that lonesome road Look down that lonesome road [Mike McKendrick] Bye bye, you vipers