Gimme a Pigfoot - Bessie Smith, Benny Goodman, Bobby Johnson

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 corn 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 reefer and a gang of gin

Play me cause I’m in my sin

Blame me cause I’m full of gin.'