As I was walking down 47th Street

Cat was blowing saxophone to a hip hop beat

Old man came up to him, said "Let me clue you in,

You can't know where you're going, if you don't know where you've been"

There ain't nothing cooler than the blues

There ain't nothing cooler than the blues

You can play anything you choose

But there ain't nothing cooler than the blues



That cat said "Look here, Pops, you don't know what you're saying

This is the hippest thing, if you dig what I'm playing"

Old man said "Listen son, I've seen hip come and go

If you want to talk about cool, there's just one thing I know"



There ain't nothing cooler than the blues

There ain't nothing cooler than the blues

You can play anything you choose

But there ain't nothing cooler than the blues



Hip hop, new wave, rock and roll

Be bop, disco, funk and soul

They all sounding mighty fine

But one thing gets 'em every time



That cat was flipping, man, he started turning red

He didn't understand a thing that old man said

He grabbed his saxophone and walked the other way

I saw him flipping burgers in Chunk y Jeez the other day



Man, there ain't nothing cooler than the blues

There ain't nothing cooler than the blues

You can play anything you choose

But there ain't nothing cooler than the blues



There ain't nothing cooler than the blues

There ain't nothing cooler than the blues

You can play anything you choose

Man, you can play a thrash metal gangsta rap hip hop cd101 neuvo jazz alternative grunge r&b dance new country teenage anthem

But there ain't nothing cooler than the blues