I'd Been In Love Before - I

I Learned Real Early Why God Gave Us Two Ears And One Mouth, Because You're Supposed To Listen Twice As Much As You Talk.

Some Summers My Father Would Take Us Down To Visit Our Grandmother In Louisville, Who Was An Ex-slave, Susan Jones, And She Had A Shotgun Shack They Call It, And No Electricity, A Well In The Back, A Coal Stove, Kerosene Lamps.

A Lot Of The Guys Were Like That - Oscar Pettiford - They Just Took Me Under Their Wing, And That's Why I Automatically Help Young People. I Just Love It, Because They Did That For Me.

I Got A Scholarship To Seattle University And I Was Writing Arrangements For Singers And Everybody. But The Music Course Was Too Dry And I Really Wanted To Get Away From Home.

I Go To The Favelas In Brazil. It's The Same In The South Side Of Chicago. It's The Same, Or Just More Violent. We're Trying To Get Them To Stop Selling Dope. You See Kids With Ak-47s, And Nine-year-olds With Nine Millimeters. You Know, They Don't Play. They Make Us Look Like Nuns.