Boplicity (Bebop Lives)

Medium swing
Music by Miles Davis Lyrics by Ray Passman & Holi Ross

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It

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as an

ex - pe - ri - ment

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a

new, but with the

be - gan

lit - tle

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&

b #

j
It

n
it

time cle - ver - ly spent.

woke up mus - i - cal minds and, boy,

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C7(#11)

&
sure made a dent and so

#j w J
we know that Be - bop Lives.

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j & j
Diz - zy, Bird

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swing,
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time peo ple did - n't

and Miles, they did it their way,

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&

b #

j n
but

g - ure it could stay,

they split would-n't you know be - cause the

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G7(4)

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&
time was pas - s and so

nj
And

they know that Be - bop Lives.

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&

b #

3 j j j j n b #

when there was a cat

who then start-ed to scat,

it made im - pres sions that,es -

1981 Sophisticate Music

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tab-lish-ing a school, be-came a pop -u lar pas - time, for bop when in its prime would

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& nj

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ti - ate the hot from the cool.

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Se - cond

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third

dif - fer - en

gen - er -

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&

still

blow

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all

the

at

ted

fths

that

a - tions

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&
we

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cer -tain - ly know,

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like:

"Ko - ko", don't for - get "Four" and then there's

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&
"Night In Tu - ni sia", so

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Be - bop

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Lives.

we know that