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Thread #127344   Message #2840844
Posted By: Jim Dixon
16-Feb-10 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: That Dood It (from James Brown)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: That Dood it
Here's a start. I transcribed this from several samples:


THAT DOOD IT (excerpt)
Rosemary McCoy, Rudy Toombs
As sung by James Brown

...Ooh!
My money—
My honey—
And me.

I been diggin' all those stories about the West the cats have told.
Me an' my baby cut out there, dig us up a mess o' gold.
The minute we find a buried treasure, I looked up an' see
A great big ol' eight-foot giant lookin' dead on me.

An' that dood it, you know, an' that dood it.
I didn't have no more eyes for diggin' up no more gold.
No, no, no, no, no, no!

I grabbed what I had in one hand and my baby by the other.
A giant grabbed my coattail and said, "Don't you go another fu'ther...."