Lyr Req: Handy Man

Subject: Lyr Req: Handy Man
From: JennieG
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 11:41 PM

I am trying to find the words and chords to Handy Man (or Handyman) - I heard a recording of Alberta Hunter singing it today but it has probably been recorded by others - Helen Hume for one.
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: Lyr Add: MY HANDY MAN
From: masato sakurai
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 12:06 AM

MY HANDY MAN (Helen Humes' version)
This double-entendre song is from Black & Blue LP 33.711 (see also Million Dollar Secret). An early version (perhaps the original?) of this song was recorded by Ethel Waters in 1928.

Whoever said a good man is hard to find
Positively absolutely sure was blind
I've found the best man there ever was
Here's just some of the things that my man does

Why he shakes my ashes, greases my grittle
Chimes my butter and he strokes my fiddle
My man is such a handy man (oh yes he is)

He threads my needle, creams my wheat
Heats my heater and he chops my meat
My man is such a handy man

Now I don't care if you believe it or not
He's so good to have around
And when my furnace gets too hot
He's right there and turns my damper down

Why for everything he's got a scheme
You oughta see that new stuff he uses on my machine
That man is such a handy man (he's God's gift girls)

Why he flaps my flapjacks, cleans off my table
Feeds my horses out in my stable
That man is such a handy man, mmm yeah

Sometimes he's up long before the dawn
Busy trimmin' the rough edges off my front lawn
Yeah that man is such a handy man

Why you know he never has a single word to say
No not while he's working hard
And I wished that you could see the way
He handles my front yard

Yeah you know my ice don't get a chance to melt away
Cause he sees that I get that fresh piece every day
My man, my man is such a handy man
And I ain't kiddin'!

(From HERE)

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Handy Man
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 01:38 PM

See also the thread: Lyr Req: My Man's a Handyman where I posted links to 2 versions (including Ethel Waters' recording IIRC). There is also a link to an earlier thread too.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Handy Man
From: CraigS
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 03:15 PM

I've got a recording of a similar song which has the chorus

I've got what my daddy likes, yes I've got what my baby likes,
And he's crazy about me, he always lets me have my fun

instead of the handyman stuff, and uses some of the verses above.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Handy Man
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 03:33 PM

Lou and Peter Berryman have a Handyman song as well, about being "In love with a handyman".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Handy Man
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 03:44 PM

Oh yeah! An' she ain't no fixa-uppa eidda! ;^) ttr