BEEDLE-UM-BUM
Thomas A. Dorsey

Down in Memphis, Tennessee
Lives a girl named Simmy.
She's got a meat shop on her block.
She's always got the gimme.

Serves a meal with a tadpole heel.
Can't resist for trying.
Every time you pass her door,
Hear Miss Simmy crying:

"Oh, beedle-um-bum,
Come see me if you ain't had none."
She'll make a dumb man speak, a lame man run.
Sure missed something if you ain't had none!

Oh, the beedle-um-bum,
Oh, the beedle-um-bum,
Got the best beedle-dum
Down in Tennessee!

Oh, that beedle-um-dum-bum,
Got that beedle-um-dum-bum,
[Scatting]

[As recorded by McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1929). Also recorded by The Harlem Dudes (1928), The Hokum Boys (1928), Big Bill Johnson (1932), The Chicago Sheiks (1932), The Memphis Nighthawks (1932), Big Bill Broonzy, Jim Kweskin, Blind Willie McTell, Memphis Slim, Tampa Red, and several others.]