Driftin’ Along

to Herbie Hancock’s Driftin’ – written key

Melancholy
Miscellany
Meaningful
Simplicity
Blue vignette
Driftin’ along

Sun shimmering
Rays cascade
Waves collide
As the surf pounds hard
The shoreline’s reach
Dread wreathes the sand
Gold beach
Storm rising
Fills the sky with thunder
Black threads raining down

The clouds ballooning
Threat close and dark
What the sun chooses
Take the night with you
Driftin’ along

Rain, the rain
Pounds the foreshore
Lightning blinds us now
And the sun
The warming sun
Will soon be with us gold.

©2007 Angela J. Elliott

Questions

Questions for the jazzman in the corner
Blowing his saxophone
Catching the world in the backbeat
Lounge lizard suit on
Glory days are come again
Crusader for happiness
No politics or hatred
Tired feet, no angry music
Cat in the fridge
No hostility in this
Blowing through the map
Exotica of notes
Funk through the night
Mist in the morning
Draggin’ himself home
Restless feet, he ain’t alone
Sundown and the bar beckons
Smoke wreathes the floor
Virtual escapade
Blue saloon and the meter’s running
Can’t get no trade
Running ragged blow below

©2007 Angela J. Elliott

dance to dance

To Recado Bossa Nova preferably in Bb (Gm)

She’s found her home from home
Samba sun and tango moon
Mamba days and bossa nights
Limbs a flail, wild with delight
Flamenco moves that castanet
Wandering groove
When the light is low
The dance is slow

She’s found her home from home
The dance is all about the flow
Hair spun gold in tumbling time
That tempo’s thread
As the drinker’s down their last
The nighthawk barman eyes the clock
But you know that she is living dance to dance

As the crowd unravels soft in the early morning light
The jazz band fades the music, slows the beat
Ends the delight

With bleeding feet she dances on
The lingering waiter watching from the door
The truth is that she doesn’t know the dance is done
The gift is that she is living dance to dance.

©2007 Angela J Elliott