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Song Analysis Of Run Joe By Louis Jordan

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The lyrics were different than the format presented in Run Joe, specifically in the fact that it conveyed a pattern of loosely related couplets, with accompanied singing by Louis Jordan. In this case however, Louis Jordan uses the singing portions as a “resting mechanism” after his long recited lines. The song is introduced with the chorus: “don’t burn the candle at both ends”—to which Jordan replies with his first long recitation. The song continues with the same formula throughout until the end. The lyrics themselves sound like excerpts of conversations rather than music lyrics, as seen in the following example:
Now one woman is fine, two is enough
Three I'll allow, but four is too rough.
Redheads are loud, brunettes are no better,
So stay

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