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My Black And White Dog
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(Spoken:)
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Do you remember that little black and white dog I had?
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Yeah, I remember the dog.
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The one they used to call Nix?
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Yeah, "Nix"!
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He was a bad dog, that son of a gun, boy he was so bad
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till the police got at him, you know.
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Yeah, he was somebody else!
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You know, he bit anybody!
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Yeah!
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And it was funny, when I went there and saw you sittin' there
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and he was laying on the floor asleep...
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Well I been around before you were...
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Yeah - I know you'd either been there before me or you'd been
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there after me or something, you know...
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Yeah, I knew your wife before I knew you!
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Oh, that was the thing, yeah... You know, I come home the other day
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and he was sitting up on that hind leg and some cat, an insurance man,
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was pattin' him on the head, you know... and he didn't say a word,
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and as soon as I opened the door the sonofa jumped at me you know
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The insurance man was paying the rent
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Yeah... and I say to him, I said looka here Nix, what the hell's
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the matter with you? You don't know me from the other man?
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You know, and he just kept growlin' at me you know.
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So I know what I'm gonna do... gonna change...
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I know I'm gettin' me a tiger... Or either a lion
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or something you know... if I don't do that I get
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a gorilla or a juju...
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You know, down in Alabama they don't drink Scotch whiskey...
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Yeah I know, especially black and white...
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No, No... They don't drink it, no... They threw the bottle away you know.
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They don't even allow blackbirds to fly over Alabama...
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The poor buzzards they can't alight around near the woods in Alabama...
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'Cause they got a white collar around their head?
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Yeah... Nothing white down there you know... I had a white shirt on,
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you know, and I was coming out one day, you know, and I was going
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to have a good time in the sun you know, I had a white straw hat and a
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white shirt you know...
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You?...
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Yeah, man... And when I got down the street a fellow said,
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"You're violating the law!" he said, "you better get in there and
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gettin' that shirt black, you know, and get that hat black..."
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You know what I had to do?
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No, what you had to do?
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Man, I had to go in and dip the hat in ink and paint my shirt black!
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But you got your white complexion!
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Oh.... When I come out I was in the groove, man, I was in the groove!
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And you know what I told him then?
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No, tell me 'bout it.
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(Sung:)
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I say, you think I'm crazy, 'cause I look just like a fool
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(Yeah, I had to bluff, you know. And you know what he told me?
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What?
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He said, Well, well, hope there's a rope, you know.
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Where's me is a tree, you understand what he was talkin' about, don't you?
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Yeah.
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You understand what he mean, you know?
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I said ain't no use to worry
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'Cos you will never, never get me
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(Mickey's Solo:)
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Play that, play that thing like you used to play that night I met you,
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you know when we were there down there to open the gamblers' house then?
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That's what I'm talking about... Boy wasn't we havin' a time?
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Yeah, we were all drunk like you
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The policeman even got drunk that night, do you remember?
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He put his hat on me, you know... And he was pleadin' to me
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not to arrest him. He was really drunk, he was Really Drunk, man!
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He didn't know what he was doing, you know...
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'Cause you was playing that thing like that, you know...
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(Jack's Solo:)
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Then I'll take it up a little bit...
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That's why I'm calling that thing my little dog Nix...
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He mix with everything...
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My Black And White Dog
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| Champion Jack Dupree |
