Lyrics Jerry the Junker - Clarence Williams

You heard about Minnie the Moocher
And about Smokey Joe
Well, gather 'round me while i tell ya' 'bout a boy you should know
Folk all call him 'Jerry the Junker' down in China Town
He's mean, dumb, blonde and lean but still he kicks the gong around

Oh Jerry the Junker
(Jerry the Junker)
Jerry the Junker
(Jerry the Junker)
Raggedy clothes and torn shoes
Oh that boy can sing the blues
Everything just seems to ooze from Jerry the Junker
(From Jerry the Junker)

The jury found him guilty
And sentenced him to die
He faced the crowd
Laughed out loud and spit in the judges eye

They strapped him to the electric chair
It was time for him to die
Ten thousand volts shocked through him
But the boy didn't bat his eye

Jerry the Junker
(Jerry the Junker)
Jerry the Junker
(Jerry the Junker)
Raggedy clothes and torn shoes
How that boy can yodale the blues
Everything just seems to ooze from Jerry the Junker
(From Jerry the Junker)

They tried, tried a thousand times
Till they heard the warden cry
Hey what's the use
Shut off that juice
My electric bill's too high

For days and days
Thousand ways
They tried to bump him up
Till one cold day he passed away
He died from the whooping cough

Oh Jerry the Junker
(Jerry the Junker)
Jerry the Junker
(Jerry the Junker)
Raggedy clothes and old torn shoes
How that boy can yodale the blues
How everything seems to ooze from Jerry the Junker
(From Jerry the Junker)
In the rags and the bones in the bottles today