Herbie Hancock - Edith And The Kingpin

The big man arrives
Disco dancers greet him
Plainclothes cops greet him
Small town big man
fresh lipstick glistening
Sophomore jive
From victims of typewriters
The band sounds
like typewriters
The big man he's not listening
His eyes hold Edith
His left hand holds his right
What does that hand desire
That he grips it so tight
Edith in the ring
The passed over
girls are conferring
The man with the
diamond ring is purring
All claws for now withdrawn
One by one they bring
His renegade stories to her
His crimes and his glories to her
In challenge they look on
Women he has taken
grow old too soon
He tilts their tired faces
Gently to the spoon
Edith in his bed
A plane in the rain is humming
The wires in the
walls are humming
Some song some
mysterious song
Bars in her head
Beating frantic and snowblind
Romantic and snowblind
She says his crime belongs
Edith and the Kingpin
Each with charm to sway
Are staring eye to eye
They dare not look away
You know they dare
not look away
The big man arrives
Disco dancers greet him
Plainclothes cops greet him
Small town big man
fresh lipstick glistening
Sophomore jive
From victims of typewriters
The band sounds
like typewriters
The big man he's not listening
His eyes hold Edith
His left hand holds his right
What does that hand desire
That he grips it so tight
Edith in the ring
The passed over
girls are conferring
The man with the
diamond ring is purring
All claws for now withdrawn
One by one they bring
His renegade stories to her
His crimes and his glories to her
In challenge they look on
Women he has taken
grow old too soon
He tilts their tired faces
Gently to the spoon
Edith in his bed
A plane in the rain is humming
The wires in the
walls are humming
Some song some
mysterious song
Bars in her head
Beating frantic and snowblind
Romantic and snowblind
She says his crime belongs
Edith and the Kingpin
Each with charm to sway
Are staring eye to eye
They dare not look away
You know they dare
not look away
Tina Turner - Edith And The Kingpin (Audio)

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Edith and the Kingpin ✶ Herbie HANCOCK & Tina TURNER

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Melody Gardot & Herbie Hancock - Edith And The Kingpin

Herbie Hancock feat. Tina Turner & Wayne Shorter - EDITH AND THE KINGPIN - High Quality

The big man arrives Disco dancers greet him Plainclothes cops greet him Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening Sophomore jive From victims of typewriters The band sounds like typewriters...

Joni Mitchell - Edith and the Kingpin

Third track from the album The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975).

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