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Thread #65888   Message #1090570
Posted By: Jim Dixon
11-Jan-04 - 05:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'Bout A Spoonful
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Bout A Spoonful
Click here for Charley Patton's SPOONFUL BLUES.

Click here for Willie Dixon's SPOONFUL.

Here are a couple more versions of Spoonful for which I could only transcribe short excerpts from sound samples found at Barnes & Noble

JUST A SPOONFUL - Charley Jordan

I'd smack the judge and I'd go to jail for a spoonful.
I'd go to jail, I don't want no bail, for a spoonful.

My baby said I couldn't get that spoonful.
I said, "Look here, gal, don't you fool with me 'bout my spoonful."

LOVIN' SPOONFUL - Rev. Gary Davis

I never knowed such a disturbment raised before in my life, just 'bout a spoonful.
I come in one morning just about half-past nine,
She got the biggest chair in the house, trying her best to knock me blind.
She raised sand on me again, just 'bout a spoonful.
Slam me on the head, said, "If you want to get along with me, give me my spoonful."

[Raise sand = an old Southern expression meaning to start an argument or fight.]