The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119826   Message #3598692
Posted By: GUEST,Ariel
05-Feb-14 - 08:41 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Slough-foot Sue? / Slewfoot Sue
Subject: RE: Origins: Slough-foot Sue? / Slewfoot Sue
My Grampa taught me different lyrics from all this! I love seeing these new ones.

I know a girl I do
Her name is slew foot sue
She's chief engineer at the shirt tail laundry
Down by the riverside view

Her form was all she had
It's shaped likes a soft shelled crab
Every morning she would hustle with a feather in her bustle by golly boys she was bad

That's where my money goes!
To buy my baby clothes
I buy her every little thing to keep her in style

She's worth her weight in gold
My coal black baby
Hey boys that's where my money goes

Without a shirt