Songwriter: Coot Grant Wesley Wilson
Producer: Gil Askey
[Verse 1:]
Up in Harlem every Saturday night
Were the highbrows get together
Just to write
They all congregate at an all night hack
What they do is ooh papa dah
Ol' Hannah Brown
Way cross town
Gets full of corn and starts brining 'em down
And at the break of day
You can hear ol' Hannah say
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me Daddy, move right down
I feel just like I wanna clown
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's bringing me down
[Verse 2:]
He's got rhythm
When he stomps his feet
He moves me right off to sleep
Check all your razors and your guns
We're gonna be arrested when the wagon comes
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me 'cause I don't care
[Verse 3:]
I want a pigfoot and a bottle of gin
Send me Daddy, move right in
Feel just like I wanna shop
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's knocking me out
He's got rhythm when he stomps his feet
He moves me right off to sleep
Check all your razors and your guns
We're gonna do the huckabuck until the rising sun
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of gin
Move me 'cause I don't care
I want a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Up in Harlem every Saturday night
Were the highbrows get together
Just to write
They all congregate at an all night hack
What they do is ooh papa dah
Ol' Hannah Brown
Way cross town
Gets full of corn and starts brining 'em down
And at the break of day
You can hear ol' Hannah say
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me Daddy, move right down
I feel just like I wanna clown
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's bringing me down
[Verse 2:]
He's got rhythm
When he stomps his feet
He moves me right off to sleep
Check all your razors and your guns
We're gonna be arrested when the wagon comes
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me 'cause I don't care
[Verse 3:]
I want a pigfoot and a bottle of gin
Send me Daddy, move right in
Feel just like I wanna shop
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's knocking me out
He's got rhythm when he stomps his feet
He moves me right off to sleep
Check all your razors and your guns
We're gonna do the huckabuck until the rising sun
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of gin
Move me 'cause I don't care
I want a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
more tracks from the album
Lady Sings the Blues (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Good Morning Heartache
- Mean to Me
- God Bless the Child
- Strange Fruit
- My Man
- You’ve Changed
- Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
- Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
- Love Is Here to Stay
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- Fine and Mellow
- Don’t Explain
- I Cried for You
- Them There Eyes
- The Man I Love
- All of Me
- ’T Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
- Lady Sings the Blues
- Love Theme
From the albums
Diana Ross popular songs
- I’m Coming Out
- Upside Down
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- Ease on Down the Road #1
- It’s Your Move
- If We Hold On Together
- The Boss
- Missing You
- Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)
- When You Tell Me That You Love Me
- Chain Reaction
- He Lives in You
- Love Hangover
- Touch Me in the Morning
- Do You Know Where Youre Going To
- It’s My House
- I’m Still Waiting
- A Brand New Day
- Blame It on the Sun
- Corner of the Sky (from Pippin)
- Heavy Weather
- Can’t It Wait Until Tomorrow
- Still in Love
- Fine and Mellow (Reprise)