It didn’t mean a thing if it didn’t swang
But Chuck B built up from the Ellington Bridge
An took us away from heartbreak ridge.
What he did was to make it do its thang
With that Go Go Swing!
Take it to bridge, yah, Take it
diggity Bridge, Yah. Beat!
All reet, was the watchword
When Charles was born
Into a world which fast unfurled-
But the Howard was always playin’
Today, we walk up Chuck Brown Way,
And on a day late in May, many Washington
(Go Go- politicians and otherwise)
From Brightwood to Chinatown;
Foggy Bottom to Skylands,
And all the high lands
and lowlands in between
Shall bow our head and bend the knee,
To recall when he, Mr. Chuck Brown(Charles no more)
“Wound us up,”
Over and around this old town,
But the Howard is again playin’
Our songs as sweet as the day is long!
