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Big Fat Mama

from You Better Lie Down by Scott Ainslie

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I learned this from the playing of David 'Honeyboy' Edwards. His idiosyncratic guitar parts are favorites of mine.

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Big Fat Mama (Tommy Johnson)

Big Fat Woman, meat shake on her bone.
Big fat Mama, meat shake on her bone.
Ev’ry time she shake it, some skinny girl will lose her home.

Well now, Big Fat Woman, where you been so long?
Big fat Mama, where you been so long?

You better quit your pushin’, darlin’, and bring your clothes back home
I’m leavin’ here baby, won’t be back ’til fall.

Leavin’ you Mama, said I won’t be back ’til fall.
If my mind don’t change, I won’t be back at all.

Big Fat Woman, meat shake on her bone.
Big fat Mama, meat shake on her bone.
Ev’ry time she shake it, Fat Man’s dollar is gone.

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from You Better Lie Down, track released September 22, 2002
Scott Ainslie, Guitar and voice

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Scott Ainslie Brattleboro, Vermont

A long history with older black blues and gospel players in the mid-South marks Ainslie's work deeply. He transcribed all of Robert Johnson's recorded songs for "Robert Johnson/At The Crossroads" (Hal Leonard, 1992) and has a teaching DVD on Johnson's music. A fine songwriter with a social conscience and a belief in the power of music to move and inspire, Ainslie's voice is a great force for good! ... more

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