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Signifying Blues (ext. Version)
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Signifying Blues (ext. version prev. unrel.) Trk 5 Disc 2 4:28
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(Ellas McDaniel)
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Bo Diddley
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Recorded 1960, Lafayette Leake - piano
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Unk - bass, Jerome Green - co-lead vocal, maracas.
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Prob. Clifton James - drums.
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Bo Diddley Chess Box Set MCA Records Inc. CHD2-19502.
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(Well, well)
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('At sho' is a old man there playin' that guitar)
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(My, you look ten days older than water)
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Hee-hee
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Say, look here!
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(A-what dat?)
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It look like your process took a recess
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(Ha-ha)
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(A-that's alright, at least I can afford to get one)
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(You wear one of them do-it-yo'self job things)
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Eee
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(Say!)
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Yeah
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(I wrote a song about you)
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Lemme hear it!
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(You sho' you wanna hear it?)
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I wanna hear all of it, nevermind the tempo
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You just shove on in there, a-he-he
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(Alright)
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(You is one ugly child, who can yo' mama be?)
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He-he
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(Ooh, I gotta 'nuther verse, you wanna hear it?)
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Go ahead sing it, lemme hear it, man
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Lay it down there to me
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(Well, if I was yo' daddy I'll go an jump in the sea)
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(No, I ain't gonna talk about you like that)
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(After all, it wasn't yo' fault)
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He-ee
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Look it, here!
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(Ya)
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I heard you had a new job, too
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(I'sn't that right?)
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You wanna hear what kinda job I heard that you had?
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(And what kinda job I got, now?)
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Standin' out front of a doctor's office makin' people sick
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A-hee-hee
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(That's alright, I heard some'in about you, too)
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You heard nothin' about me
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(Yes, I did)
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(I heard that you were so ugly
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That when you cry, the tears run down the back-a yo' head
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To keep from comin' towards yo' face)
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He-he-he
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(Say!)
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Yeah
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(I wonder what you would-a been if you would-a lived?)
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What's that?
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(I said, I wonder what you would-a been if you had-a lived?)
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You, wait a minute
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Now, I dare you to say it, again
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(I said, I wonder what you would-a been if you had-a lived?)
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Yo daddy! hee-hee
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(Hey, there!)
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Yeah
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(Did yo' mama ever have any children?)
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A-wh-what?
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(Did yo' mama ever have any children?)
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Hoo, I betcha yo' ma didn't raise no dummys either did she?
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(She musta raised one I'm up here wit' you)
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Yeah
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Say, look here!
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(What dat?)
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What size shoes you wear?
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(Ten ' half)
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Yeah
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(I right)
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I figured you was gon' say that
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Yo' feet look like you got on violin cases
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A-hee-hee
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(Say, now)
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Yeah
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(What air force you belong to?)
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The same one yo' daddy belong to
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(I thought so, I saw that propeller around yo neck)
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A hee-hee
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Say, look-it-hee
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(Yeah)
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You've got on a thirty-five dollar bow tie
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(Hmm, that right)
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Fifty-five dollar white shirt
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(Uh-huh)
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Hundred ' fifty dollar coat
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(Sho nuff)
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Eighty-five dollar pair a pants
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(Yeah)
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Sixty-five dollar pair a shoes
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(A-ha)
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And no underwear
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(That's alright)
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(The reason I ain't wearin' none a them
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Yo' wife couldn't afford to buy 'em)
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He-hee
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(Hey, there!)
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Yeah
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(I don't need you to play that thing)
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You act like I could be replaced, huh?
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(There's other guitar players, ya know)
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Ain't no mo' like me!
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(I know it, one like you is enough!)
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He-hee
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Ooo.
Bo Diddley "Signifying blues"
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