Black Bottom-Annette Hanshaw/Helen Forrest

[ti:Black Bottom] [ar:Annette Hanshaw] [al:The Best Things In Life Are Free - The Ray Henderson Songbook] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Black Bottom - Annette Hanshaw/Helen Forrest [00:17.05]Oh the black bottom of the Swanee river [00:20.62]Sometimes like to shake and shiveer [00:24.18]But it makes the darkies feel like struttin' around I watchin' [00:31.69]They found a way to imitate it [00:34.92]I know they exaggerate it [00:38.19]But I wish that you could see the dance that they found [00:43.65] [00:45.03]Every high brown gal and her bon-bon buddy [00:48.60]Go down where the tracks are muddy [00:52.26]To do a step that soon will be renowned [00:58.28] [00:58.87]They call it black bottom a new twister [01:03.87]Sure got 'em oh sister [01:07.45]They clap their hands and do a raggedy trot it's hot [01:14.17] [01:14.79]Old fellows with lumbago [01:18.04]With high yellers away they go [01:21.53]They jump right in and give it all that they've got [01:26.30] [01:27.43]They say that when the river bottom covered with ooze [01:34.03]Start in to squirm [01:35.74]Couples dance here's the movement they use [01:40.73]Just like a worm [01:42.73]Black bottom [01:44.24]A new rhythm [01:45.85]When you spot 'em [01:47.68]You go with 'em [01:49.34]And do that black black bottom all the day long [01:54.27] [02:36.64]They say that when the river bottom covered with ooze [02:41.78]Start in to squirm [02:43.47]Couples dance here's the movement they use [02:47.55]Just like a worm [02:49.30]Black bottom [02:50.59]A new rhythm [02:51.78]When you spot 'em [02:53.38]You go with 'em [02:54.78]And do that black black bottom all the day long [02:59.15]All day long long all day long