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Lyr Req: dirty version of 'What'd I Say?'

20 Sep 22 - 05:56 PM (#4153182)
Subject: Lyr Req: dirty version of 'What'd I Say?'
From: GUEST,Guest: Gern

I heard this version mentioned in an interview with Southside Johnny, and thought this might be an important nugget of Americana. Anybody know a burlesque version?


21 Sep 22 - 02:41 AM (#4153202)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: dirty version of 'What'd I Say?'
From: Joe Offer

Here's a performance by Junior Wells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QfPaLrgGs. Don't know if Southside Johnny is performing with him on this.

Are you talking about a version of the "What'd I Say?" song Ray Charles recorded?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uTDa3771HM

WHAT'D I SAY
(Ray Charles)

Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong
Come and love your daddy all night long
All right now, hey hey, all right
See the girl with the diamond ring
She knows how to shake that thing
All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey
Tell your mama, tell your pa
I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas
Oh yes, ma'am, you don't do right, don't do right
Aw, play it, boy
When you see me in misery
Come on baby, see about me
Now yeah, hey hey, all right, all right, aw play it, boy
When you see me in misery
Come on baby, see about me
Now yeah, hey hey, all right
See the girl with the red dress on
She can do the Birdland all night long

Yeah yeah, what'd I say, all right
Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah
Tell me what'd I say right now
Tell me what'd I say right now
Tell me what'd I say right now
Tell me what'd I say right now
Tell me what'd I say right now

And I want to know
Baby, I want to know right now
And I want to know
Baby, I want to know right now
And I want to know
Baby, I want to know right now

Hey, don't quit now! (Come on honey)
Naw, I got, I uh-uh-uh, I'm changing (stop! stop! we'll do it again)
Wait a minute, wait a minute, oh hold it! Hold it! Hold it!
Hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey
Oh one more time (just one more time)

Say it one more time right now (just one more time)
Say it one more time right now (just one more time)
Say it one more time right now (just one more time)
Say it one more time right now (just one more time)
Say it one more time right now (just one more time)

Hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey
Ah! Make me feel so good (make me feel so good)
Make me feel so good now yeah (make me feel so good)
Woah! Baby (make me feel so good)
Make me feel so good yeah (make me feel so good)
Make me feel so good yeah (make me feel so good)
Make me feel so good yeah (make me feel so good)

Awh it's all right (baby it's all right)
Awh it's all right (baby it's all right)
Awh it's all right (baby it's all right)
Awh it's all right (baby it's all right)
Awh it's all right (baby it's all right)
Awh it's all right (baby it's all right)

Woah! Shake that thing now (baby shake that thing)
Woah! Shake that thing now (baby shake that thing)
Woah! Shake that thing now (baby shake that thing)
Woah! Shake that thing now (baby shake that thing)
Woah! Shake that thing now (baby shake that thing)
Woah! Shake that thing now (baby shake that thing)

Woah! I feel all right now yeah (make me feel all right)
Woah! I feel all right now yeah (make me feel all right)
Woah! I feel all right now yeah (make me feel all right)
Woah! I feel all right now yeah (make me feel all right)
Woah! I feel all right now yeah (make me feel all right)
Woah! I feel all right now yeah (make me feel all right)


Songwriters: Ray Charles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27d_I_Say


22 Sep 22 - 03:10 AM (#4153264)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: dirty version of 'What'd I Say?'
From: BobL

I remember a band called (if my memory is correct) the Huckleberries, performing in a Cheshire country pub some 60 years ago. A lot of the songs had altered words, amusing and usually off-colour. The only ones I remember though are:


See the girl with the red dress on,
She won't have it on for very long

See the girl with the diamond ring
I know what she did to get that thing

See the girl that's dressed in green
Put her down, you don't know where she's been


Happy days.