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<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm5" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><strong><u><span class="gmail-tm6" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Bessie Smith - Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer</span></u><span class="gmail-tm6" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm5" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><strong><u><span class="gmail-tm6" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana"></span></u></strong><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Songwriter is recorded as Wesley Wilson.</span><em><span class="gmail-tm8" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana"> These are the lyrics - (as I heard and learned them many years ago...)</span></em></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm5" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt;text-indent:0pt">Spoken intro:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt"><span class="gmail-tm9" style="font-family:Verdana">“Twenty-five cents? Ha! No, no, I wouldn't pay twenty-five cents to go in nowhere. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt;text-indent:0pt">'Cause listen here…”</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt;text-indent:0pt">Up in Harlem every Saturday night, when the high browns get together it's just too tight</span><br></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm10" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:200%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">They all congregate at an all night strut - and what they do is tut, tut, tut...</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:200%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Old Hannah Brown from ‘cross the town gets full of corn and starts breaking 'em down<br>And at the break of day, you can hear old Hannah say....</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:200%"><span class="gmail-tm9" style="font-family:Verdana">Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer! Send me, Gate*, I don't care!</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:200%"><span class="gmail-tm9" style="font-family:Verdana">I feel just like I wanna clown. Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:200%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">He's gotta rhythm, yeah, when he stomps his feet, he sends me right off to sleep,<br>Check all your razors and your guns, we gonna be arrested when the wagon comes</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:200%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">I wanna pigfoot and a bottle of beer! Send me 'cause I don't care, </span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:200%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Play me 'cause I don't care</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:200%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Trumpet solo....... (Frankie Newton?)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm12" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer! Send me, Gate*, I don't care, </span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm12" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">I feel just like I wanna clown. Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm12" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">He's got rhythm, yeah, when he stomps his feet he sends me right off to sleep.</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm12" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Check all your razors and your guns. Do the shim-sham shimmy 'til the rising sun</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm12" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Give me a reeefer and a gang of gin. Play me 'cause I'm in my sin.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm12" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Play me 'cause I'm full of gin.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm12" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm12" style="margin:1pt 0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:10pt;color:black;border:none;padding:3pt;line-height:154%"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">*“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.</span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="2"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Best regards, cheers and good wishes,</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"> John Shillito</span></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></i></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>