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Thread #29785   Message #380669
Posted By: Tinker
23-Jan-01 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: Bawdy music :-)
Subject: Lyr Add: FOR SALE (Clarence Williams)
AggieBeth, if you want to get "modern" here's a sample from Street Walkin' Blues:25 Plaintive Paeans to the World's Oldest Profession,1924-1956, from Jass Records. It's alot of fun, but I would avoid State Street Blues if your ever up Boston way near any of the Lady Bankers...

FOR SALE

Hard times they tell me made a monkey eat hot pepper
Let me tell you what they've done to a red hot stepper
Hannah Johnson was a lucky farmerette til this depression
Now she's lost most everything she had in her possession

She didn't miss the cow, she didn't miss the chickens
But when she had to sell her Jack Ass then she raised the dickens
She didn't mind the loss of pigs, nor horses nor hay
The thing that hurt her most was to hear the neighbors say

Oh, Hannah Johnson's big Jack Ass is ~~on the block for sale.
The way she worked that Jack Ass It must be tough as a whale
Every man in the county could ride it bare back And honey so wide you were safe on her jack

For long distance riding her jack ass never tired
She worked for nothing, just the same as when hired.
Hannah Johnson's Big Jack Ass is on the Block for Sale
Hannah Johnson's Big Jack Ass is on the Block for Sale

The way she worked that poor ol' ass, It must be tough as a whale

When mounting be gentle You'll never have trouble
She worked alright single, but wouldn't tow double
If you owned her and the neighbors should pass
You could cover her head~ they'd recognize that ass

Hannah Johnson's big Jack Ass is on the Block for Sale
I'm talkin' about~ That mule was on the block for sale.

Tinker