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Thread #173881 Message #4217617
Posted By: Jack Horntip
19-Feb-25 - 09:08 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
"Get 'em from the Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)" Lil Johnson
[piano and the sound of a stream whistle]
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts? Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale. Sellin' one for five, two for ten, If you buy 'em once, you'll buy 'em again. Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man.
Nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts? Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale. You tell me your nuts is mighty fine, But I bet your nuts isn't hot as mine. Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man.
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts? Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale. And they tell me your nuts is mighty small, Best to have small nuts than have no nuts at all; Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man.
[piano and the sound of a steam whistle]
Spoken: Look what you can get cheap! Only five cents, boys! Nice and brown, too! Everybody's crazy 'bout my nuts!
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts? Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale. Now you see that man all dressed in brown, He's got the hottest nuts in town. Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man.
Nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts? Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale. When a hog get hungry, he starts to grunt, When a man get hungry, he starts to hunt, For nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man, I say! You buy 'em from the peanut man!
Feb. 12, 1936. Vocalion 03199. American Record Corp. studios, Chicago.
This is the recording that is found in modern LP & CD compilations. It was was reproduced on the Kicks and Zest party record labels in the 1940s / early 1950s.