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- Mance Lipscomb - Shake Shake Mama Lyrics
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- Oh, ain't gonna give you no more cherry ball1
- Oh, ain't gonna give you no more cherry ball
- You gone drunk and showed your Santa Claus2
- Oh, a little bitty woman, hips just like a snake3
- Oh, a little bitty woman, her hip just like a snake
- ...baby, it really take
- Oh, late last night my love come fallin' down
- Me and my baby on our last go-'round
- Oh, shake, shake mama, I'll buy you a diamond ring
- Oh, shake, shake mama, I'll buy you a diamond ring
- You don't shake, ain't gonna buy you a doggone thing
- Oh, my clutch start to slippin', carb's won't even sing
- Oh, my clutch start to slippin', my carb's won't even sing
- Blues in the compression, fire my piston ring
- Oh, rider, you ain't foolin' me
- Look-y here, rider, you ain't foolin' me
- You been slippin' to your old-time used-to-be
- Oh, I like my babe but I don't like her teddy bear4
- Oh, I like my woman but I don't like her teddy bear
- I'm gonna buy her a box-back, maybe it'll work
- __________
- Note 1: cherry ball is probably blues slang, fostered by the 1930 Memphis Minnie composition "Cherry Ball Blues" which begins "I ain't gonna give you none o' my cherry ball". James uses it to personify sex or (according to one's point of view) "dehumanize" women;
- Note 2: one of the country blues' least known sexual euphemisms, "Santa Claus" may have an idiomatic basis in the Southern speech. Tossing a quarter dollar to an elderly Negro, a character of writer Faulkner remarks, "Buy yourself some Santa Claus";
- Note 3: hips just like a snake, said of people who can twirl their bodies impressively;
- Note 4: teddy bear, a woman's one-piece undergarment, worn in the twenties.
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