Posted: 12/30/2002 6:07:46 PM EDT
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[img]http://www.isp.nwu.edu/~ethan/calloway2.jpg[/img] Minnie the Moocher Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a red hot hoochie-coocher She was the roughest toughest frail But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale - Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi.... (Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi) Whoa-oh-oho-oh-oh-oho.... (Whoa-oh-oho-oh-oh-oho) Ee-de-ee-de-ee-de-ee.... (Ee-de-ee-de-ee-de-ee) Way-hey-ey-ay-ee-ay-ay-ay.... (Way-hey-ey-ay-ee-ay-ay-ay) - She messed around with a bloke named Smokey She loved him though he was Coke-y He took her down to Chinatown And he showed her how to kick the gong(?) around - Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi.... (Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi) Whoa-oh-oho-oh-oh-oho.... (Whoa-oh-oho-oh-oh-oho) Yeah-eah-aa-aheah-ah-ah-ah.... (Yeah-eah-aa-aheah-ah-ah-ah) Whoa--ioh--ioh--iohh.... (Whoa--ioh--ioh--iohh) - She had a dream about the king of Sweden He gave her things that she was needin' He gave her a home built of gold 'n steel A diamond car ... with big pl-atinum wheels - Hi-de-i-de-i-de-i-de-iii.... (Hi-de-i-de-i-de-i-de-iii) Oh-de-oh-de-oh-de-oh-de-O-oh.... (Oh-de-oh-de-oh-de-oh-de-O-oh) Skitleedatleedootidituditooey.... (Skitleedatleedootidituditooey) A-boo-rrigi-boo-rrigi-boo-rigi-ay.... (A-boo-rrigi-boo-rrigi-boo-rigi-ay) - He gave her a townhouse and his racing horses Each meal she ate was a dozen courses She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes She sat around and counted them a million times - Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-i.... (Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-i) Whoahohohohohohooooooh.... (Whoahohohohohohooooooh) Whay-hey-heey-heey-hey-a-ay.... (Whay-hey-heey-heey-hey-a-ay) Whoa-oh - Whoa-oh.... (Whoa-oh - Whoa-oh) - Poor Minnie Poor Minnie Poor Minnie.... |
| The Scary thing was that Cab Calloway was the first thing I thought of...bought a few of his albums (kind of like a CD, but bigger for you young folks) when I saw the Minnie the Moocher schene in Blues Brothers. Wasn't years later when I learned about the other meanings of Scat. LOL. |
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I can remember when I was a little boy. My grandmother and I could hold conversations entirely without ever opening our mouths. She called it "shining." "You've got fifteen rib roasts, thirty ten-pound bags of hamburger, we got twelve turkeys, about forty chickens, fifty sirloin steaks, two-dozen of pork roasts, and twenty legs of lamb." "We've got canned fruits and vegetables, canned fish and meats, hot and cold syrups, Post Toasties, Corn Flakes, Sugar Puffs, Rice Krispies, Oatmeal...and Cream of Wheat. You got a dozen jugs of black molasses, we got sixty boxes of dried milk, thirty 12-lb bags of sugar...Now we got dried peaches, dried apricots, dried raisins and dried prunes." |