Bessie Smith - Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer Lyrics

Lyrics Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer - Bessie Smith




25 cents, hah, no, no, I wouldn't pay 25 cents to go nowhere
'Cause listen, yeah
Up in Harlem every Saturday night
When the highbrows get together, it's just too tight
They all congregate at an all night strut
And what they do is tut, tut, tut
Oh, Hannah Brown from '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 got 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
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 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 reaper and a gang of gin
Play me 'cause I'm in my sin
Blame me 'cause I'm full of gin



Writer(s): Wesley Wilson


Bessie Smith - The Essential Bessie Smith
Album The Essential Bessie Smith
date of release
22-11-2013

1 Dying Gambler's Blues
2 Aggravatin' Papa
3 Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
4 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
5 Jail-House Blues
6 Graveyard Dream Blues
7 Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
8 Boweavil Blues
9 Weeping Willow Blues
10 St.Louis Blues
11 You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
12 Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
13 Careless Love Blues (Alternate Take)
14 I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle
15 At the Christmas Ball
16 Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
17 Back Water Blues
18 After You've Gone
19 Alexander's Ragtime Band
20 There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
21 Trombone Cholly
22 Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
23 A Good Man Is Hard To Find
24 Dyin' by the Hour
25 Me And My Gin
26 Kitchen Man
27 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
28 On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
29 Moan, You Moaners
30 Black Mountain Blues
31 Shipwreck Blues
32 Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
33 Do Your Duty
34 Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
35 Take Me for a Buggy Ride
36 Down in the Dumps




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