Music: lyric sheets
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Your support makes all the difference.Bill Clinton is to make his British jazz debut on saxophone. The event will take place at Ronnie Scott's in Birmingham after the G8 Summit of world leaders in May.
Clinton's Key Note
The Summit talks will break an hour early
The instrument be lifted from its case
So Birmingham may savour
In crotchet and in quaver
A joy-of-sax and Clinton interface
The President, no stranger to a rondo
Or odd cadenzas on the saxophone
Will spend the evening wailing
While never once inhaling
A difficult technique he's made his own
And while he is on stage he may entreat them
To something in the recent smorgasbord
From Be-Bop through to Fusion
With possible inclusion
Of any little piece he may have scored
And so what if he stumbles on a blue note
Or deafens fellow diplomats 'til dawn
The press will have a story
And Birmingham the glory
Of seeing Bill Clinton brandishing his horn
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