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Thread #5133   Message #3526162
Posted By: Jim Dixon
13-Jun-13 - 07:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Shake 'Em On Down (Bukka White)
Subject: Lyr Add: SHAKE 'EM ON DOWN (Bukka White)
The transcription posted above by Brian Hoskin is accurate (as far as I can tell), but this comes from a different (probably later, judging by the sound quality) recording:


SHAKE 'EM ON DOWN
As sung by Bukka White on "The Best of the Blues Vol. 3" and "Bukka White Revisited."

Get your nightcap, mama, and your gown.
Maybe 'fore day we gonna shake 'em on down.

CHORUS: Must I holler?* Ah, must I shake 'em on down?
I done stopped hollerin'; must I shake 'em on down?

Washed my dasher; scoured[or "scald"?] my churn,
Stirred the crap(?) until the butter come.

Baby got somethin', I don't know what it is,
Make me drunker than a whiskey still.

[Repeat previous verse]

See, see, baby, see what you done done:
Made me love you like your man done come.

Late last night, baby, come in, knocked on your door.
I heard him when he told you tell me she didn't want me no more.

Lookit, lookit, yonder, baby, comin' down the road.
My baby come and tried to tell me she don't want me no more.

[* holler – sometimes he pronounces it "hollow."]