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Say boy, where you from? You's the natural born ugliest man I ever seen. I wish I could play the dozens, but I didn't learn to count to twelve. Else I'd play the dozens with you.I don't play no dozensCause I didn't learn to count to twelveThey tell me God don't like uglySo boy your home's in HellI'd like to see your mammyYour pappy tooSay how come when you was bornThey didn't send you out to some zoo
Well, I don't play the dozen and neither the ten'Cause you keep on talkin', I leads you inWell you keep on talkin' till it makes me madWell I'll tell you 'bout some mothers that your father had'Cause I don't play the dozen, I declare man, and neither the ten
I'm going uptown : buy me coke and beerComing back : and tell you how these women isThey drink their whiskey : drink their coke and ginWhen you don't play the dozens : they will ease you in
Part of what makes Speckled Red's song so great is that he edits out the anger, letting us enjoy the humour and just a hint of the obscenity. The other thing he did was to create a great tune.
The uploader of the Jelly Roll Morton track is called Blucius13. I did save it to a playlist, so maybe you stumbled upon that?
Quote from: Johnm on August 05, 2018, 04:58:55 AMI'd just note that Sam Chatmon's "God Don't Like Ugly" is pretty coy, professing in the refrain not to play the dozens, and then spending the remainder of the song doing precisely that!It's the coyness of 'I don't play the Dozens but...' that's always appealed to me, John.Another singer who plays with the idea is Big Bill, heading the State Street Boys. He shares Little Hat Jones's conceit of not playing the Ten. I guess his audience would catch on to 'Put you int the Dozen if you call my name' and 'Now you keep on talking' till you make your daddy mad' with its bowdlerised rhyme 'Talk about the people both good and bad'.QuoteMe and my baby taking a trip up NorthOn the way we met the hail and frostDon't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inSee me comin' out in the rainPut you in the Dozen if you call my nameDon't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inNow I don't play the Dozen and I don't play the TenKeep on talkin' till I ease you in Don't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inNow I can I can a drive a wheel mama and I can change a ploughBeen on the levee since I don't know howDon't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inNow the men on the levee hollerin' 'Way! Ho! Gee!'Women in the bottom hollerin' 'Don't you murder me!'Don't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inNow you keep on talking' till you make your daddy madTalk about the people both good and badDon't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me in(As best I can tell, there's a subtext about an unsophisticate from the South ? where they play the Dozens. Why else 'Now I can I can a drive a wheel mama and I can change a plough' if not to poke fun at someone who's confused?)
I'd just note that Sam Chatmon's "God Don't Like Ugly" is pretty coy, professing in the refrain not to play the dozens, and then spending the remainder of the song doing precisely that!
Me and my baby taking a trip up NorthOn the way we met the hail and frostDon't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inSee me comin' out in the rainPut you in the Dozen if you call my nameDon't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inNow I don't play the Dozen and I don't play the TenKeep on talkin' till I ease you in Don't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inNow I can I can a drive a wheel mama and I can change a ploughBeen on the levee since I don't know howDon't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inNow the men on the levee hollerin' 'Way! Ho! Gee!'Women in the bottom hollerin' 'Don't you murder me!'Don't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me inNow you keep on talking' till you make your daddy madTalk about the people both good and badDon't play the Dozen, Mama don't you ease me in
I've a feeling I may have a dumb question though, possibly due to the sheltered life I've led. When Little Hat Jones sings "Now I don't play the Dozen and I don't play the Ten" What's 'the Ten' ? A shorter version of the Dozens? And again excuse my ignorance here, but how did it get to be known as 'The Dozens' ?
the dozens originated when he was a kid, that it was a kid's game: I insult twelve of your relatives, you insult twelve of mine, back and forth. The first guy who throws a punch loses.
Book of Genesis got the first truthGod Almighty took a ball of mud to make this earth
FIRST PERFORMER: Book of Genesis got the first truth...SECOND PERFORMER: No you ugly thing, I got the first truth. Somebody kicked a ball of mud to let you loose
God took a ball of mud when he got ready to make you.When he went to make you, partner, ugly as you is, I believe it slipped out of his handAdam named everything they put out in the zooI'd like Adam to be here, see what in the hell he'd name you
Just as sure As five and five is tenBaby I don't play no dozenOoh-well-wellAnd please don't ease me inJust as sureAs six and six is twelveIf you ease me in the dozenOoh-well-wellI'm bound to ease you in Hell