...CONSTIPATION BLUES (by Screamin' Jay Hawkins)
Another one--"Stepped in What??" by Chuck Berry's piano player, Johnnie Johnson, talks about stepping in dog poo.
"Stepped in what? Stepped in what? STEPPED IN WHAT??...
Everybody knows. They say the smeller is a fella, but everybody knows what it is."
Hi, raccoon:
How about Long John Baldry's epic:
'You Don't Wanna Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock & Roll'?
Jack.
Don't know if this really fits but I'll throw it out there-
Strokin' by Clarence Carter (Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter.)
Middle Aged Blues Boogie
That is one great song lol
And Lonnie Mack's "Oreo Cookie Blues" is a favorite around my house drives my son nuts when I break out the Gibson and sing it at parties LOL
I ain't got no time for a half-steppin' chicken
Cuz I'm a full-steppin' rooster
by Robert Johnson
I woke up this mornin' and all my shrimps was dead and gone
I woke up this mornin', ooh, and all my shrimp was dead and gone
I was thinkin' about you, baby, why you hear me weep and moan
I got dead shrimps here, someone is fishin' in my pond
I got dead shrimps here, ooh, someone fishin' in my pond
I've served my best bait, baby, and I can't do that no harm
Everything I do, babe, you got your mouth stuck out
Hole where I used to fish, you got me posted out
Everything I do, you got your mouth stuck out,
at the hole where I used to fish, baby, you've got me posted out
I got dead shrimps here, 'n' someone fishin' in my pond
I got dead shrimps here, someone fishin' in my pond
Catchin' my goggle-eye perches, and they barbequin' the bone
Now you taken my shrimps, baby, you know you turned me down
I couldn't do nothin', until I got myself unwound
You taken my shrimps, oohh, know you turned me down
Babe, I couldn't do nothin', until I got myself unwound __________
If Viagra were avalible back then, that song may have never been written.
...CONSTIPATION BLUES (by Screamin' Jay Hawkins)
My personal favorite sung by Fats Walller:
Who's that walkin' 'round here?
Mercy!
Sounds like baby patter!
Baby elephant patter, that's what I calls it!
Say, up in Harlem,
At a table for two,
There were four of us,
Me, your big feet and you!
From your ankles up, I say you sure are sweet,
From there down, there's just too much feet!
Yas!
Your feet's too big!
Don't want ya 'cause your feet's too big!
Can't use ya 'cause your feet's too big!
I really hate ya 'cause your feet's too big!
Yeah!
Da-dee-do-dah, wan-ga-der!
Where'd you get 'em?
Nyah-da-dum!
Your girl, she likes you, she thinks you're nice,
Got what it takes to be in paradise;
She says she likes your face, she likes your rig,
But, man, oh, man, them things are too big!
Oh, your feet's too big!
Don't want ya 'cause your feet's too big!
Mad at you 'cause your feet's too big!
I hate you 'cause your feet's too big!
[Spoken]
My goodness, those are gunboats!
Shift! Shift! Shift!
Oh, your pedal extremities are colossal!
To me you look just like a fossil!
You got me walkin', talkin' and squawkin',
'Cause your feet's too big, yeah!
[Spoken]
Come on and walk that thing!
Oh, I never heard of such walkin'! Mercy!
Your... your pedal extremities really are obnoxious.
One never knows, do one?
He's A Jelly Roll BakerSomehow I don't think he's talking about pastry.
Lonny Johnson - also by Brownie McGhee
She said: Mr. Jelly Roll Baker, let me be your slave
When Gabr'el blow his trumpet, then I rise from my grave
For some of your good jelly roll, yes, I love good jelly roll
It is good for the sick, yes, an' it's good for the ol'I was sentenced for murder, in the first degree
The judge's wife called up and said: Let that man go free
He's a jelly roll baker, he's got the best jelly roll in town
He's the only man that can bake jelly roll with this damper down*Once in a hospital, shot all full of holes
The nurse left a man dying, and said, she's got get a jelly roll
This good old jelly, she says: I love my good jelly roll
She says: I' d rather let him lose his life than to miss my good jelly rollLady asked me: Who light me how to bake good jelly roll
I says: Nobody miss, it's just a gift from my soul
To bake good jelly roll, hm, that good old jelly roll
She says: I love yo' jelly roll, it does me good deep down in my soulWell, she says: Can I put in an order, two weeks ahead?
I'd rather have yo' jelly roll than my home cooked bread
I love your old jelly, I love your good jelly roll
It's just like Maxwell house coffe, it's good deep down in my soul
Albert Collins wonders why there's "Too many Dirty Dishes...
in the sink for just us two". Who's been gettin' that T-bone
steak, while he's been fed cereal by the wife? Hmm! And Albert
makes his guitar sound like someone scrubbing dishes during the song.
Collins appears in the movie ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING, doing a song called Baby Sitter Boogie, I believe. The film is supposed to take place in Chicago, but like other movies
(Blues Brother 2000, for one), it was filmed in Toronto to
save money. The blues club he plays looks suspiciously like a place I went to on a Toronto visit once, the Silver Dollar
on Spadina!
btw...also dealing with blues...Dan Aykroyd became a fan of Toronto's Downchild Blues Band, and saw them at places like
Grossman's in Toronto. As a result, the Blues Brothers
first album features two Downchild songs: I Got Everything I Need, Almost, and Shotgun Blues. (On a live Downchild album,
lead singer of the band dedicates one of those songs to
"Jake"--Belushi's character. This was shortly after
Belushi's death...)
And the Blues brothers had some humorous songs. Their version of Floyd Dixon's "I Don't Know" has some spoken bits:
"Woman! You gonnna walk a mile for a Camel, or are you gonna make like Mr. Chesterfield and satisfy! She said, that all depends on what you're packin'...regular or KING size!
So she pulled out my Jim Beam, and to her surprise...it was every bit as hard as my Canadian Club..."
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