《Open The Door Richard》歌词

[00:00:01] Open the Door Richard

[00:00:02] Count Basie and His Orchestra

[00:00:04] Words by Dusty Fletcher and John Mason

[00:00:05] Music by Jack Mcvea and Don Howell

[00:00:07] Peaked at #1 in 1947 and, true to the times, six other versions also made the

[00:00:09] Top 10

[00:00:09] Three Flames (#1);Dusty Fletcher (#3);Jack Mcvea (#3);the Charioteers (#6);

[00:00:11] Louis Jordan (#6);and The Pied Pipers (#8)

[00:00:13] Intro-conversations mingled in a crowded room

[00:00:14] ????At the club tonight. Ole Richard went home early-he's got the key to the

[00:00:18] House. I'm gonna knock on the door, see if I kin get in.

[00:00:23] Open the door, Richard!!Ya see, Richard sleeps in the back room. It's kinda hard

[00:00:28] To hear.

[00:00:29] Maybe I better knock a little louder.

[00:00:33] Open the door, Richard!!I don't think Richard heard me yet. Knock one more

[00:00:39] Time-let's see

[00:00:39] What's gonna happen.

[00:00:41] Richard, open the door, please.

[00:00:43] Sung: Open the door, Richard

[00:00:48] Open the door and let me in

[00:00:52] Open the door, Richard

[00:00:55] Richard, why don't you open that door?

[00:00:59] Richard, open the door, man-it's *co-hold*out here'n this air. Now look-there's that

[00:01:06] Old woman 'cross the street lookin' out the windah

[00:01:08] (Who's that, Widow Sweet?)

[00:01:10] That must be her sister, I guess. She wants to make sure this is me. She's tryin'

[00:01:16] To find out

[00:01:16] What's happenin'. Yes, it's me and I'm late again!

[00:01:21] (??, did you hear what the lady's sayin'?)

[00:01:23] No, what is she sayin'?

[00:01:24] (She said you sure look common out here'n the street.)

[00:01:29] Common?Man, I got class I ain't never used yet. I'm gonna knock again-

[00:01:34] Richard's got to get up.

[00:01:37] Open the door, Richard!!Man, you got a key to the house?

[00:01:41] (No, ??, I don't have a key. I don't have a key.)

[00:01:44] Somebody's got to get in the house. We can't climb in the transit.

[00:01:48] (Oh, I know he's in there.)

[00:01:50] How you know he's in there?

[00:01:51] (I can hear him breathin'.)

[00:01:53] Ooooh, let's try it one more time!

[00:01:59] Richard, open that door, man. Maybe Richard's gone.

[00:02:04] Sung: Open the door, Richard

[00:02:14] Open the door and let me in

[00:02:18] Open the door, Richard

[00:02:20] Richard, why don't you open that door?

[00:02:21] I know he's in there.

[00:02:22] (how you know he's in there?)

[00:02:22] Why, you got on the suit.

[00:02:24] I know I got on the only suit. Ain't got but one suit between us. That's the

[00:02:30] Reason why I don't like to roooooom with nobody.

[00:02:32] Fade

[00:02:32] Richard, why don'tcha open the door, man?

[00:02:33] Transcriber's notes: *cold. "*

[00:02:33] This entire song is done on an ad-lib basis and it varies widely from other

[00:02:35] Versions, which were considerably funnier. "??"represents the names or

[00:02:37] Nicknames of the band members which I could not comprehend. Still it is the

[00:02:39] Version that made #1.