Gimme A Pigfoot by Bessie Smith

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Gimme A Pigfoot
By: Bessie Smith

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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.''
(I B Emerson)

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Available on the following albums:
1921-1933: Empress of the Blues	1923-1933: Empress of the Blues	1925-1933
1929-1933	After You've Gone	Alexanders Ragtime Band
An Introduction to Bessie Smith: Her Best Recordings 1923-1933	Bessie Smith, Vol. 3: 1923-1933	Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 5 - The Final Chapter [Box set]
Best of the Empress of the Blues	Careless Love [Original recording remastered]	Chattanooga Gal [Box set]
Complete Recordings, Vol. 8	Empress of the Blues [Box set]	Empress of the Blues [Import]
Empress of the Blues: Collectors Edition	Empress of the Blues: Collectors Edition [Import]	Empty Bed Blues
Greatest Hits	Kings of the Blues [Import]	Mamas Got the Blues
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues	Masters	Queen of the Blues [Import]
The Collection	The Empress of the Blues: 1923-1933	The Essential Bessie Smith
The Gold Collection	The Incomparable	Vol. 3 - Bessie Smith: La Selection 1923-1933
Womans Trouble Blues [Import]
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	11-05-78, #78-38

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