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Big Legged Sally
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Well hello Georges, well I'll be doggone! I hadn't seen you in a long time, man,
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where have you been?
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Well, you see, I've been hangin' around but eh... I ain't been doin' no good
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Well you ain't been goin' to the right places man,
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you must go to the right places, you know.
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The right places is where I go!
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Well... where's that? Where's that place you go?
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And then... and then...
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You know that big fat woman they call Big Sally? You-you know Big Sally?
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You mean that - you mean that big woman with her chest hangin'
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down below her knees?
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Yes... that's the one I'm talkin' about.
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Everytime she walks she kick herself in the chest.
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Yes, I remember that.
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Uh, well look friend, I tell ya - I tell ya what you should do for me. You
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should sing a couple of numbers, you know, short numbers and then
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I'll take the rest. You know what you used to sing?
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What was - what was I used to sing?
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Ah.. the one about... what Shakespeare wrote... you know: "Mama
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move your false teeth papa wanna scratch your gums" or somethin'
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like that you know - you understand, yeah. All right, now look. You
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sing a verse and then I'll sing a verse.
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Well early in the mornin', when I wake up in my bed...
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That's it! That's it! That's it! Sing that one, yeah, that's good.
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Or did you wake up, you know.
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Early in the mornin' yes..
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You sound like my mother-in-law, you know...
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Yes when I wake up in my bed...
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Scoobydoobydoo... that's it, that's it, yeah...
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Yeah I don't have no money
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You never did!
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But I have the blues in my bread
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No no li-li-listen what I'm gonna sing now...
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I said big legged mama, take your big legs off of me
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Well, that's good!
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Yeah big legged mama, take your big legs off of me
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Give me - you used to sing together a long time ago, you remember
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that? I think it was, uh, eighteen hundred and one to one Septober
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the sixth, you remember? Yeah... We used to really do it, you
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remember? Yeah... Now-now look, now look... Nownownow le-le-le-
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let's let this guitar player play it awhile you know. Cause he'll feel bad if
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he don't play. Play it fella, while I drink - again...
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That's the way he played before he got married! Yeah... Well after he
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got married he didn't play that way you know...
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Look out look out son! Now let the bass player play it a little bit here...
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Play it son...
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Shakespeare says "Man who play bass use fingers" - ain't nothin' else
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he could use, you understand... he can't use his teeths 'cause he ain't
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got none, you understand... yeah...
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Well I'll be doggone, this is the best day I ever had since I've been
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having had days, yeah!
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Well loo-look I tell you friend, I'm sorry I have to leave you but - I have
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to get on down to Big Sally's house because she got somethin' goin'
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on down there you know. Why don't you come along with me, down
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to Big Legged Sally, you know...
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Well you see, I'd go along with you but uh... my money's very short!
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Well you don't need no money.... all you need to do is sing that verse
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you sung before. I-I tell you what you do you know, sing this number:
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"Cocoanut Annie" you know, somethin' like that you know... Now
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hear me say
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I used to love you baby
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I give you my money too
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Now I'm gettin' doggone tired
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Foolin' 'round with you
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She drink three quarts of whiskey
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Like you drinkin' lemonade
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You drink one pint of gin
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At night 'fore you go to bed
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Bye bye, yes baby bye bye
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Yes I see you mama
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No matter babo babo babo babo -
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- you know what "babo" is? Uh, "babo" is when the real modern jazz
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fellers play and they close their number and he say, "baboo baboo
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sayz who" but you haven't seen his sazoo you know but he say
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"scooby dooby dooby" - when I say that then all of yours say "ohhhh
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yesss..." I wanna hear it, all right? You ready now? All right now...
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Wait - let me get a little drink here 'fore we close just wait - one
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minute -
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Hey Baboo Baboo Scoobee Doobee Oobleehooblee hoo hoo zoo bowwow hooo...
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(all: Ohhhh Yessss....)
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That's crazy! That's crazy...
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