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Thread #77516   Message #1382852
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
19-Jan-05 - 10:59 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Buddy Bolden's Blues
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Buddy Bolden's Blues
Verses above added after Bolden's commitment in 1907. Frank Dusen was his trombonist, taking over the band in 1907.
Judge Fogarty owned a saloon on St. Charles Street. He was a judge for a very short time; and the verse came from a music hall jingle.

I dreamed I heard Judge Fogarty say
Twenty-five dollars or thirty days
Please Judge Fogarty, turn me loose,
I got no money but a good excuse.

I thought I heard Judge Fogarty say,
Funky Butt, Funky Butt, take him away.

Jelly Roll at one time sang:
I thought I heard Judge Fogarty say,
Thirty days in the market, take him away.

There are other verses to "I heard Judge Fogarty say."

Eubie Blake wrote an instrumental called "Judge Fogarty."