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I sang the song that I'm 
going to sing for you now.

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And, you know,

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you get your adjudication 
sort of sheets afterwards

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and they tell you what 
your score is and whatever.

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And one of the judges 
said, “Okay, you're great,

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but what could you possibly know 
about the song you're singing?

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You're only 14 years old. ”

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And I was so offended

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because I

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had known from the time 
I was nine-years-old

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that I wanted 
to be on Broadway someday.

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So I had studied this character. 
I studied the show.

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I knew what their objectives 
were,

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what their wants, 
the whole trajectory. I knew.

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So, I was very offended.

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Well, I'm 52 now

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and I have no idea what I was 
doing singing that song at 14.

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So I'm going to sing it

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For you now

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and perhaps 
you'll understand why.

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All right, hit it.

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♪ Well ♪

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♪ I just put the kids to sleep ♪

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♪ And swept the shack ♪

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♪ Took my sweet 
man's satchel down ♪

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♪ And watched him pack ♪

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♪ I said, "darling, while 
the stove still smolders ♪

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♪ Unpin your woman's hair 
and rub her shoulders" ♪

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♪ I threw myself 
across the doorway ♪

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♪ Begging, "stay, sweet 
man, stay" ♪

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Why did nobody stop me?

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Was there no adult in my life?

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But they didnt, 
so I kept going.

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♪ But there's more in 
my man's life than this old hag

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[audience laughs]

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♪ It's Jelly Roll Morton ♪

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♪ And a shiny cornet 
And jazzin' the rag ♪

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♪ The lady ain't been born ♪

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♪ Can take the place of a horn ♪

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♪ With a cornet man ♪

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♪ A-goin' where 
there's blowin' ♪

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♪ Trav'lin' cornet man ♪

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♪ Just anytime they call him ♪

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♪ He'll leave his wife 
and kiddies ♪

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♪ Sittin' with their 
tongues out ♪

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♪ To play for peanuts in a dive 
And blow his lungs out ♪

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♪ He'll hop a choo-choo 
on a moment's notice ♪

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♪ To play some dates 
with Billy Bates ♪

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♪ Or Rag-time Otis ♪

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♪ The lady ain't seen light 
Can give a horn a fair fight ♪

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♪ With a cornet man ♪

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♪ A rootin', shootin', 
ever-tootin' Dapper Dan.. ♪