Champion Jack Dupree

Big Legged Mama

Champion Jack Dupree


Well hello Georges, well I'll be doggone!
I hadn't seen you in a long time, man, where have you been?
Well, you see, I've been hangin' around but eh
I ain't been doin' no good
Well you ain't been goin' to the right places man
You must go to the right places, you know
The right places is where I go!
Well

Where's that?
Where's that place you go?
And then
And then
You know that big fat woman they call Big Sally?
You-you know Big Sally?
You mean that - you mean that big woman
With her chest hangin'down below her knees?
Yes
That's the one I'm talkin' about
Everytime she walks she kick herself in the chest
Yes, I remember that

Uh, well look friend, I tell ya - I tell ya what you should do for me
You should sing a couple of numbers, you know
Short numbers and then I'll take the rest
You know what you used to sing?
What was - what was I used to sing?
Ah
The one about
What Shakespeare wrote
You know
Mama move your false teeth papa wanna scratch your gums
Or somethin' like that you know - you understand, yeah

All right, now look
You sing a verse and then I'll sing a verse
Well early in the mornin', when I wake up in my bed
That's it!
That's it!
That's it!

Sing that one, yeah, that's good
Or did you wake up, you know
Early in the mornin' yes
You sound like my mother-in-law, you know
Yes when I wake up in my bed
Scoobydoobydoo
That's it, that's it, yeah
Yeah I don't have no money
You never did!
But I have the blues in my bread
No no l-l-l