Liner notes: WALLA WALLA WOMAN BLUES

This original blues is loosely based on the Barrelhouse style made famous by stars like Bessie Smith, in the days before microphones were used for live performance. It was written to raise some working cash for the Mudcat on commission from a lovely Mudcatter in, of all places, Walla Walla, Washington, the town so fair they had to name it twice.

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   You know, flakie cats just want to stone you 
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   And big cowboys they just want to own you 
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   For a reg'lar jelly roll 
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   And the losers want you to roll them 
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   And beg you to control them 
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   And grind 'em til they find they souls , oh, 
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   I 'm not about  to start contraction 
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   From  a masculine reaction 
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   Cuz I'm a real woman right down to my shoes, 
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   But I'm getting those 
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   Walla Walla's wasting 
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   A Walla Walla Woman blues 
  
   Big bikers want to play you 
   And maybe want to flay you 
   Hey, wouldn't you rather burn a bra? 
   Then the SNAGS want easy living 
   Got no-o-o sense of rhythm 
   And  can't figure out just who they really are 
   Mister big iron pumper 
   Got a motion, like a bumper 
   AIn't got enough  plain soul to shine my shoes 
  
   But I'm gettin those 
   Walla Walla's wastin' 
   A Walla Walla Women blues. 
    
  
        Bridge: 
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        I like to do that hootchie kootchie thing 
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        But no-one here to kootchie  me 
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        I like to run a nice strong coffee grinder 
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        And the men around here drink tea, cold tea, oh 
  
   I got three hot kitties 
   Begging, pretty pretty, 
   Just to go out on the town at night 
   Jes' see how they carry on 
   Hear them whine an' moan 
   They don' believe its right 
   Sometimes I turn a my back 
   And they slip through a crack 
   And those pussies down town 
   Get more than I do 
  
   Leaves me them 
   Walla Walla's wastin' 
   A Walla Walla Women blues. 
    
    
  
        Bridge: 
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        I'm not not excessively demanding 
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        That's no way for a good woman to be 
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        All I want is some plain understanding 
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        And some con-geni-ality, Oh, 
    
  
   I don't want a man on booze 
   They always seem to lose 
   Except for that one out Chicago way 
   Cuz I can still recall 
   He would play that Cannonball 
   And that was what he did to steal 
   My heart away 
   I'm gonna move it, yes move it 
   Til someone finds that groove, 
   Go out in whitebread city and cruise 
   Gonna shake them Walla Walla.... 
   Wasting a Walla Walla.... 
   A Walla Walla Woman Blues....oh, yes.