Big Long Slidin' Thing

Big Long Slidin' Thing - Dinah Washington

I've been in every bar

Been in every honky tonk

Been trying to find my daddy

With that broke down piece o' junk

Ask everyone to help me

Cried help me if you can

You'll lnow my daddy

He's that trombone playing man

Where is my daddy

Tell me where is my daddy

With that big long sliding thing

I even ask a man

That played a steel guitar

He said that you don't need him

To be moved eight to the bar

He brought his amplifier

And he hitched it in my plug

He planked it and he plunked it

But it just wasn't good enough

'Cause I need my daddy

Need my daddy with that big long sliding thing

Well then a knock came at my door

I said mmm my daddy's back

I opened up the door

And there stood piano jack

He said I came to do some tinkling

On your piano keys

I said don't make me nervous

This ain't no time to tease

Just send me my daddy

Send me my daddy with that big long sliding thing

Well the first time he played

I ask him how it was done

He said I blow through here

Then I work my fingers and my thumb

I slide it right up

Then I slide it back again

And I get a lot o' wind

And then I slide it back again

That is my daddy

With that big long sliding thing oh yeah