Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ma Rainey

Now you heard the rest

Ah boys

I'm gonna show you the best

Ma Rainey's gonna show

You her black bottom

Way down south in Alabamy

I got a friend they

Call dancing Sammy

Who's crazy about

All the latest dances

Black bottom stomps

And the Jew baby prances

The other night

At a swell affair

Soon as the boys

Found out that I was there

They said

"Come on Ma let's go to the cabaret"

Where that band you

Ought to hear me say"

I want to see

That dance you call the black bottom

I wanna learn that dance

Don't you see

The dance you

Call your big black bottom

That'll put you

In a trance

All the boys

In the neighborhood

They say your black

Bottom is really good

Come on and show me

Your black bottom

I want to learn that dance

I want to see

The dance you

Call the black bottom

I want to learn that dance

Come on and show

That dance you call your

Big black bottom

It puts you in a trance

Early last morning

Bout the break of day

Grandpa told my grandma

I heard him say

Get up and show your

Old man your black bottom

I want to learn that dance

Now I'm gonna show

Y'all my black bottom

They stay to see that dance

Wait until you see me

Do my big black bottom

I'll put you in a trance

Ah do it ma do it honey

Look it now Ma

You getting kinda rough here

You gotta be yourself now

Careful now

Not too strong

Not too strong Ma

I done shown y'all

My black bottom

You ought to learn that dance