Gimme a Pigfoot Songtext
von LaVern Baker

25 Cents? No, honey, I wouldn′t pay 25 cents to go in nowhere
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Up in Harlem every Saturday night
When the highbrows get together, it's just too tight
They all come again at the all-night strut
And what they do is a tut, tut, tut
Old Hannah Brown from way ′cross town
Gets full of corn and starts breakin' them down
Just at the break of day
You can hear old Hannah say

Give me a pigfoot, yeah, and a bottle of beer
Send me 'gain, I don′t care
I feel just like I wanna clown
Give a piano player a drink because he′s bringin' me down


He′s got a rhythm, yeah, when he stomps his feet
He sends me right off to sleep
Check all your razors and your guns
We gonna be restin' when the wagon comes

I want a pigfoot, oh, and a bottle of beer
Send me ′cause I don't care
Slay me ′cause I don't care

Oh, give me a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me 'gain, I don′t care
I feel just like I wanna clown
Give a piano player a drink because he′s bringin' me down

He′s got a 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 risin′ sun

I want a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me 'cause I don′t care
Slay me 'cause I don't care