Hey jazz fans
I'm talking to you

[Chorus]
I sing this song
Hoping you all find out
The Man who wrote the Yardbird Suite
Leave you no doubt
Tell you about

Charles Yardbird Parker was his name
The facts--he carved his fame in history
A sax for his axe

His improvisation was miraculous,
Mastermind of rhythm was he,
He blew notes that nobody had ever blown before, till then
Blew 'em as they'd never been.

So often true as genius seems to do
He suffered his life through
But gave us the Yardbird Suite

[adlib part] (based on Charlie Parker's play on March/20/'46 Dial session)
All because he never stopped blowing
When he had te miserable lows
He seemed to put out his horn
And make each person listen
What being low-down could be
He knew that low
When happy music goin' to set him free
He blew and blew and blew
Until he had the change he's had the sounds
We had them long before
We heard them when he was just a boy in Kansas City
So pretty

After he came to New York town
All the local jazzmen listenin' in admiration
When long before his new sounds were 'round the nation
And Bird deserves the credit for the stimulating rhythm
The sound of jazz
It makes us very happy to announce
A goodly portion of his best works recorded
Have a treat
Have right out and get yourselves some Yardbird suite

(Interlude）

(Ending）
Charles Yardbird Parker was his name
For a Yardbird Suite this version should be heard
He left the world many more
And so if you're interested in listening to Bird...