The song Strollin' is performed by Charles Mingus in the album named Ah Um 50th Anniversary in the year 2009 .
Strollin' (Nostalgia in Times Square)
Music - Charles Mingus, Words - George Gordon
first recorded with vocals by Honi Gordon 1959
(header)
Strollin' , while strollin' through the park
on a lovely but lonely afternoon,
without a single thing on my mind
and suddenly, there he was standing
right beside me....
I started dreaming, he started scheming
things I never thought he'd do
now he tells me that we're through
I just don't know what to do
I'm all alone and oh so blue
(main verse)
I'm Strollin', I'm strollin'
I don't know where I'm going but I'm strollin'
I'm moanin', I'm moanin'
He left me for another and I'm moanin'
He said "Honi I'll never let you go,
Because I love you so"
He promised that he'd care for me
But all I saw, was misery
I stayed at home each night alone
He ran around, painted the town
I've gone and let the blues get me down
That's why I'm strollin' round
All he wanted was my money, it's funny
To think I'd live to see the day he'd shun me
He away, and I pray,
Lord please remove these clouds and make life sunny
Because I've got these blues I can't lose
I just keep strollin' round
He never took me to a show
That old routine, he had no dough
He'd stay home long enough to eat
Dress up, then go out in the street
You wondered why I feel the way I do
Well that's why I'm so blue
Yes those blues they got me
Strollin' and sighin'
I'm talking to myself to keep from cryin'
All alone, he won't phone,
I'm so darned miserable
I feel like dyin'
Because I've got the blues
I'm so confused
I just keep strollin round
(out chorus)
Now he tells me that we're through
I just don't know what to do
I'm all alone and oh so blue
Now he tells me that we're through
I just don't know what to do
I'm all alone and oh so blue
I'm strollin' I'm strollin'
I don't know where I'm goin'
But I'm Strollin'
I'm strollin' I'm strollin'
I don't know where I'm goin'
But I'm Strollin'
Charles Mingus - Ah Um 50th Anniversary
Ah Um 50th Anniversary
- Better Git It In Your Soul
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
- Boogie Stop Shuffle
- Self-Portrait In Three Colors
- Open Letter To Duke
- Bird Calls
- Fables Of Faubus
- Pussy Cat Dues
- Jelly Roll
- Pedal Point Blues
- GG Train
- Girl Of My Dreams
- Bird Calls (Alternate)
- Better Git It In Your Soul (Alternate)
- Jelly Roll (Alternate)
- Slop
- Diane
- Song With Orange
- Gunslinging Bird
- Things Ain't What They Used To Be
- Far Wells, Mill Valley
- New Now Know How
- Mood Indigo
- Put Me In That Dungeon
- Strollin'