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Thread #81301   Message #1487723
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Coltman
18-May-05 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Half Past One (Traditional(?) bawdy song)
Subject: RE: Origins: HALF PAST ONE Traditional(?) Bawdy So
Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band, one of the alltime great hot song aggregations, did a version of the last. (Though the relation of either one to the song John quotes is tenuous at best, what the hay, it's all to the good.) If memory serves it went:

My baby rocks me, with one steady roll, (2)
I looked at the clock, clock struck one,
I said baby, let's have some fun!
Just keep on rockin' me baby, with that steady roll.

Clock struck two,
I said baby, ain't we through?

Clock struck three,
I said baby, you're killin' me,

Clock struck four,
I said baby, let's have some more,

THE song for the late late party, bar none. I have used it often. Bob