Whazzup?

I met this old buddy and you know, we sat down for a beer, and then I suddenly came up with that same old question... Whazzup? And then he said:

            "That´s right. That's the question! Whazzup? You know what Dagfinn, soon I´m gonna get rid of my house and buy me a tiny little hole in the wall in downtown Oslo, and that tiny little hole in the wall I´m gonna make up as a jazz bar, and the name of that jazz bar´s gonna be: Whazzup? It´s gonna be a little jazz kind of dive bar with some soft and deep chairs, where people can tell each other, right out, whazzup? And then I don't mean fibbin´ about whazzup, no, forget that, you gotta tell the whole truth, you can't go on sayin Well, everything's OK, ...how about you? I mean if you just gone bankrupt cause a guy in your shop stole half a million, and then made away with your wife and moved down to Rio, well - then you should tell it out loud! Cause that's not fucking okay! And then you know the old boys could talk about it, and maybe sort it out! Thats gonna be the whole thing about sitting in that jazz bar Whazzup? Sort it out! (solo)

            And behind the counter you're gonna find me, yeah, I'm gonna be there with all my LPs and my stereo and I'm gonna play Charlie Parker C Jam Blues, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins and if people don´t like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, well they can get the hell out of there because in my bar Whazzup? Imma who's playin the music and here people are gonna tell each other Whazzup! And they're supposed to do that listening to real music and drink real beer, not a lady beer, a pint! and every single time they have a beer they're gonna get a little something to eat, some smoked ham, some chorizo or olives, for free, so they're not still hungry after their four-five beers and don't go home to their sad and dusty flats and eat a terrible frozen pizza before they go into the bedroom and hang themselves. (solo)

            Cause that's why imma starting a tiny little jazz bar Whazzup? Where people can tell each other whats up! There are too much fibbin´  around and I'm gonna put an end to that, and the beginning of putting an end to that is to start a tiny little jazz bar in a hole in the wall! And, if it's a success, well, maybe I can start another little jazz bar somewhere else, maybe in Queens or Harlem, you never know, it could be a chain of jazz bars in London, Thorshavn, Brooklyn, Hokksund, Dusseldorf, Cape Town and Montevideo, and then maybe we could make a better world with not so much fibbin´ and lying, and the ol´ boys could talk to each other and maybe sort it out, and at the same time get to hear some real music, for instance C Jam Blues with Charlie Parker."

Engelsk tekstversjon av tittellåta på skiva vår "Åssengårea?" som utgis 14.11.2011

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