The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111266   Message #2518885
Posted By: GUEST,John Salmon
18-Dec-08 - 10:27 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Black Annie
Subject: ADD Version: Black Annie
We discussed this on Weenie Campbell last April...here are the lyrics I came up with, with some help from friends over there:

BLACK ANNIE

Well-ah me'n my baby had a little falling out
Won't you stop and let me tell you what it's all about
She woke me up in the morning just at half-ah past three
Thinks I'm goin' to work but that ain't me

Well before I go to work let me tell you what I do
Get another woman just as warm as you
I packed my trunk and I thought I had her there
She shoved a hundred dollar bill in my face and said,

"Ah, you may go but this is going to bring you back
Well I don't know, I'm really disgusted
At the way you've acted
You took all my furniture you put it in pawn
To buy them there tailor-mades that you got on
You may go but this is going to bring you back"

Well I went downtown and I fell in the saloon
I got my head loaded, got desperate soon
I went right back to the place I'd been before
And she wouldn't recognize me, wouldn't let me in

I got myself together and I knocked down the door
Great big bully sittin' there by my stove
Skillets and lids I began to throw
When I thought I heard my baby say's the coon went out the door,
"You may go but this is going to bring you back"

Well she bought me a wheel for to ride around
You know my wheel's called one of the finest in town
Bicycle suit of the finest kind
None of them coons could equal mine
I got on my wheel and I started out
Out to buy my babies when I hear my honey shout,
"Kill 'em kid, you sweet thing, my honey
Well you sure look hot, you sure look hot
You uptown coon you had rather be shot, rather be shot
Than to see my baby coming down the street
With a pocket full of money and a place to sleep
Pay no attention to who we meet
Just kill 'em, kill 'em kid"

Well I carried my girl to the dance last night
Just to show show them coons that we were right
When we entered right through the door
I thought some a-soldiers gonna raise a fight
But when the band began to play, began to play
That Bamboushay
I was swingin' in the air when I heard my baby say,
"Got a brand new man
Got a foldin' bed to sleep on
Got a brand-new sofa, got a-plenty to eat
Brand new man and he can't be beat"
I got a swell-headed lady and she can't be beat