Hoagy Carmichael citations

“You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.”

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Hoagy Carmichael

Song: Rockin’ Chair http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/carmichael_hoagy/1466609/lyrics.jhtml (1930).

“I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues”

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Hoagy Carmichael

1947 song title, generally agreed to be the longest title of any commercially published song.

“It's the story of a very unfortunate colored man
Who got arrested down in Old Hong Kong
He got twenty years' privilege taken away from him
When he kicked old Buddha's gong.”

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Hoagy Carmichael

Song: Hong Kong Blues http://www.lyricsvault.eu/songs/19573.html (1939).