You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
AL JARREAUYou have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
AL JARREAUOh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must.
AL JARREAUI came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
AL JARREAUI was age six or seven, and singing, “Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him,” and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
AL JARREAULet that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
AL JARREAUI did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
AL JARREAUI sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
AL JARREAUA couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
AL JARREAUIt was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
AL JARREAUTo sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
AL JARREAUEvery living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
AL JARREAUI kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
AL JARREAUObviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
AL JARREAUThese songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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