Your daddy was a monkey and your mama was an ape

Here's what got me started with all of the "Hesitation Blues" yesterday. I was listening to "Cocaine Habit Blues" by the Memphis Jug Band and remembered that Charlie Poole did the same song except he called it "Take A Drink On Me". So I put that on and accidently played "If The River Was Whiskey" because it's the song right after "Take A Drink On Me" and then I remembered that Peter Laughner did a version too. Yesterday's post was the end result.

So anyway, from 1930 here's "Cocaine Habit Blues" by the Memphis Jug Band.

Cocaine habit mighty bad
It's the worst old habit that I ever had
Honey take a whiff on me

I went to Mr Beaman's in a lope
Saw a sign on the window said no more dope
Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me

If you don't believe cocaine is good
Ask Alma Rose at Minglewood
Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me

I love my whiskey, and I love my gin
But the way I love my coke is a doggone sin
Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me

Since cocaine went out of style
You can catch them shooting needles all the while
Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me

It takes a little coke to give me ease
Strut my stuff long as you please
Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me

And from 1927 "Take A Drink On Me" by Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers.

Take A Drink On Me

What did you do with the dollar you had in your hand?
I give it to the rounder and he shot it to the bad
Oh, Lord, honey, take a drink on me

Take a drink on me, take a drink on me
All you rounders, take a drink on me
Oh, Lord, honey, take a drink on me

If you keep on talking you'll make me think
Your daddy was a monkey and your mama was an ape
Oh, Lord, honey, take a drink on me

You see that girl with the hobble on?
She's good-looking just as sure as you're born
Oh, Lord, honey, take a drink on me

Also, here's a couple different versions of "Sadie Green". One called "Everybody's Talking About Sadie Green", a 1930 recording by The Mamphis Jug Band. The other is "Sadie Green, the Vamp of New Orleans" by Roy Newman & His Boys recorded in 1935. Roy & His Boys recorded "Honey Don't" & "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby" which were later recorded by Carl Perkins and some band from England.

Sadie Green, the Vamp of New Orleans
has more boys than the Navy has Marines
When she starts to dance, oh gee!
Mama mama pin a rose on me!

She makes the bald men tear their hair
Now hold her tight don't let her rear
Since this dancin' baby came to town
She's turned everything upside down

Oh boy what a catch
She got great big eyes and feet to match
What a queen, Sadie Green,
She's the vamp of New Orleans

I had a request for The Sneakers so I'll try to get to that next week. You can (or not) look forward to The Sheppards, Big Dipper and The Tempos too.

Now go to The House Of Drunk and get a bunch of great songs by Too Drunk.