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Gimme a Pigfoot

Bessie Smith26 Aug 2022

Gimme a Pigfoot Lyrics

Up in Harlem every Saturday night

When the highbrows get together its just so right

They all congregate at an all night hop

 

And what they do is Oo Bop Bee Dap

Oh Hannah Brown from way cross town

Gets full of coin and starts breaking 'em down

 

And at the break of day

 

You can hear ol' Hannah say

 

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer

 

Send me again I don't care

I feel just like I wanna clown

Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down

He's gotta rhyme yeah

When he stomps his feet

He sends me right off to sleep

Check all your razors and your guns

We gonna be arrested when the wagon comes

I wanna pigfoot and a bottle of beer

 

Send me cause I don't care

 

Blame me cause I don't care

 

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer

 

Send me again I don't care

I feel just like I wanna clown

Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down

He's got rhyme Yeah

When he stomps his feet

He sends me right off to sleep

Check all your razors and your guns

Do the Shim-Sham Shimmy 'til the rising sun

Give me a reaper and a gang of gin

Play me cause I'm in my sin

 

 

Blame me cause I'm full of gin

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