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The Twelves
Kokomo Arnold
Recorded in Chicago, Illinois, January 18, 1935
Decca Records C-9671-A De-7083
Says I want everybody fall in line
Shake your shimmy like I'm shaking mine
You shake your shimmy, shake it fast
If you can't shake your shimmy shake your yas yas yas
Says *I am* wit your mama out across the field
Slipping and a-sliding just like an automobile
I hollered at you, mama, I told her to wait
She slipped away from me just like a Cadillac Eight
Say I like your mama, sister too
I did like your papa but your papa wouldn't do
I met your papa around the corner the other day
I soon found out that he was funny that a-way
Says I went out yonder New Orleans
The wildcat jumped on the sewing machine
The sewing machine sewed so fast
Sewed ninety-nine stitches up his yas yas yas
Says God made Adam, made him stout
He wasn't satisfied until he made him a snout
He made him a snout jus as long as a rail
He wasn't satisfied until he made him a tail
He made him a tail just to fan the flies
He wasn't satisfied until he made him some eyes
He made him some eyes just to look on the grass
He wasn't satisfied then he made his yas yas yas
He made his yas yas yas *so he couldn't get a trick*
He wasn't satisfied until he made him some sick
He made him sick and then he made him well
You know by that the big boy coughing in hell