Lyr Add: I Want to Play Piano in a Whorehouse

11 Feb 23 - 05:09 PM (#4164888)
Subject: Lyr Add: I Want to Play Piano in a Cat house
From: Jack Horntip

I WANT TO PLAY PIANO IN A WHORE HOUSE
Tune: I Only Want a Buddy, Not a Sweetheart

I want to play piano in a whorehouse
That is but my one desire.
Some may want be ranchers or farmers out in Butte
I just want to play in a house of ill repute.
Don't deny me my humble aspiration
For carnal copulation's here to stay;
I don't want for fame or riches,
I want to play for those old bitches
I want to play piano in a whorehouse.

Transcribed from the CD A Night at the Bar with the Boys by Fighter Pilots from Alconbury. Issued in 1990 on cassette. Later issued as a CD-R. The tune is "I Only Want a Buddy, Not a Sweetheart". I believe this song was first recorded 24 Jan 1934.

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11 Feb 23 - 05:28 PM (#4164889)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Want to Play Piano in a Whorehouse
From: Jack Horntip

I WANNA PLAY PIANO IN A CATHOUSE
Tune: I Only Want a Buddy, Not a Sweetheart

Oh I wanna play piano in a cathouse
Now that's the only thing that I desire
Some people play banjos
Or strum on a lute
But I wanna to play in a house of ill repute.

You may laugh at my silly ass-piration
But that oldest know profession's here to stay
Yes, I'd give up all my riches
Just to play for all those... girlfriends.
I wanna play piano today.

[musical interlude]

Now you may laugh at my silly ass-pirations
But that oldest know profession's here to stay
Yes, I'd got out and beat down doors [knock, knock, knock]
Just to play for all those... girlfriends.
I wanna play piano today... in a cathouse
I wanna play piano today.

From the 1983 LP, Ringwald Rated-R by Robert Ringwald (father of actress Molly Ringwald)

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17 Feb 23 - 09:35 PM (#4165436)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Want to Play Piano in a Whorehouse
From: Jack Horntip

Ed Cray in his The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs. 2nd edition has this song on page 252 with music (tune unidentified).

See here:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Erotic_Muse/W8PvCRbEKLYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22wanna+play+piano+in+a%22&pg=PA252&printsec=frontcover

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18 Feb 23 - 05:30 PM (#4165489)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Want to Play Piano in a Whorehouse
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

My old mate Jelly Roll Morton used to play in whorehouses, a
lot.

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