Sweet Substitute
This tune has long been a favorite of mine. At the end of his life, Jelly Roll Morton started a publishing company with a friend, and some of the songs that he then wrote are as sad but attractive as this one. I have played it with a trio with bass sax, as a duet with piano, and now with my one-man band.
Sweet substitute, Sweet substitute She tells me that she's mine, all mine Does anything I tell her, 'Cause love is blind. She's got such loving ways My head is in a daze My new recruit is mighty sweet and cute I'm crazy 'bout my substitute