Red Clay (Murphy)

'Red Clay' is a 1970 instrumental jazz piece by Freddie Hubbard.

Lyrics were added later by Mark MURPHY as 'On the Red Clay':

Scream door slappin' somewhere on a side porch
A sleepy morning way out in the boondocks
Stories are being told on the red clay
Every clays where we came from to begin with
And where were going when time comes for splitting
Sands being dug on the red clay

Moving, always, grooving
Morning, midnight, sleep tight
Someone's playing something on the back step
The happy faces look out of the windows
Always something good on the red clay

Waiting for the paper in the evening
You watch the roses climb out of their earthbeds
Lives being lived on the red clay
Moving down my baby when she's tired out
I tell her fun things and watch her start smiling
Nobody’s even sat on my red clay

Your move, my move, check me
He moves, they move, dig me
Red clay’s just a dirt, but it's a large sum
So what you doing just sitting there groovin'
Always a lot to do on the red clay.


Recordings exist by Mark Murphy (1975), Rare Silk, Philip Bailey, Rachel Brand, etc.