just a kid really not long in long pants he goes where he hears the music playing Mamie Desdume's becomes the can rusher to learn Mamie's blues played with the two remaining fingers on her right hand and soon young Ferd is playing ten-fingered piano and making up dirty lyrics in Mamie's house of desire shaming his family and when they tear down the joint he goes on the road al'bama bound sticks a diamond in his tooth and invents jazz (he says) and has so many suits women call him the suit man from suit land and bring it with them when they come and he plays piano with finesse and writes tunes everyone wants he has it all and then he hears a new sound smooth and creamy a new beat light and dreamy and it's over the suit man no longer suits the diamond is in hock the men in the street are gaunt and hungry and soon there will be war
