Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer
- Bessie Smith
Key: C C ·
Orig: C ·
Capo:
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Time: 4/4 ·
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Intro, spoken
N.C.
Twenty five cents? Ha! No-no,
I wouldn't pay twenty-five cents to get into nowhere!
Cuz' listen here
Verse 1
C7
Up in Harlem every Saturday night
F7 F
When the highbrows get together its just too tight
G7 Cm C7
They all congregate at an all night strut
F A#
And what they do is tut-tut-tut
Verse 2
C7
Ol' Hannah Brown, from cross town
F7
Gets full of corn and starts breaking 'em down
F7
And at the break of day
A#7
You can hear ol' Hannah say
Chorus 1
D#
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
C7
Send me again. I don't care
F7 A#7
I feel just like I wanna clown
D# A#7 D#
Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down!
D#
He's gotta rhythm, yeah! When he stomps his feet
C7 A#7
He sends me right off to sleep
D# G7 C7
Check all your razors and your guns
C7 F7 A#7 G#7
We gonna be rasslin' when the wagon comes
A#7 D# C7
I wanna pigfoot and a bottle of beer
F7 A#7 D#7 C7
Send me cause I don't care
F7 A#7 D#
Blame me cause I don't care
Chorus 2
A#7 D#
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
C7
Send me again, I don't care
F7 A#7
I feel just like I wanna clown
D A#7 D#
Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down
D#
He's got rhythm, yeah, when he stomps his feet
C7 A#7
He sends me right off to sleep
D# G7 C7
Check all your razors and your guns
C7 F7 A#7 G#7
Do the Shim-Sham Shimmy 'til the rising sun
A#7 D# C7
Give me a reefer and a gang of gin
F7 A#7 D# C7
Play me cause I'm in my sin
F7 A#7 D#
Blame me cause I'm full of gin.











