[Dixielandjazz] Lyrics to "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer"

[Steve Voce]

It was a superb band with wonderful solos from Frankie Newton, Chu Berry and Jack Teagarden. The obligate were magnificent. Benny Goodman visited the studio and it is said that his clarinet can be detected on one track. Additionally, around about the time that this, Bessie’s last recording session, was being made for Columbia, Billie Holiday;s first was being recorded in this  or a nearby studio.
Steve Voce

> On 17 Mar 2019, at 23:58, John Shillito <jnshillito at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bessie Smith - Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
> Songwriter is recorded as Wesley Wilson. These are the lyrics - (as I heard and learned them many years ago...)
> Spoken intro:
> “Twenty-five cents? Ha! No, no, I wouldn't pay twenty-five cents to go in nowhere.   'Cause listen here…”
> Up in Harlem every Saturday night, when the high browns get together it's just too tight
> They all congregate at an all night strut - and what they do is tut, tut, tut...
> Old Hannah Brown from ‘cross the town gets full of corn and starts breaking 'em down
> And at the break of day, you can hear old Hannah say....
> Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer! Send me, Gate*, 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 rhythm, 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,
> Play me 'cause I don't care
> Trumpet solo....... (Frankie Newton?)
> Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer! Send me, Gate*, 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 rhythm, 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 reeefer and a gang of gin. Play me 'cause I'm in my sin.
> Play me 'cause I'm full of gin.
>  
> *“Send me, Gate” sounds like a reference to Louis Armstrong, who accompanied Bessie on some earlier sessions, although I believe the trumpeter on the recording from which I’ve transcribed the lyric was, I believe, Frankie Newton.
> 
> Best regards, cheers and good wishes, John Shillito
> 
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