Bottle It Up And Go

Bottle It Up And Go 2: 46 Trk 3 Disc 1
 Tommy McClennan
 Recorded: Wednesday Nov. 22, 1939 Chicago, Illinois
 RCA Studio A., A&R - Lester Melrose
 Tommy McClennan - vocal & guitar
 Album: RCA Bluebird Recordings 1939-1942
 RCA 07863, 67430-2 (BMG Music) 1997
 *Note at end
 Yes, yas
 Got to bottle it up an go
 Got to bottle it up an go
 Now, 'em high-power women
 (guitar)
 Yeah
 Now, she may be old
 Ninety year
 She ain't too old
 For the shift them gears
 She gots (guitar)
 'Got to do what, tell me 'gain?'
 'Got to bottle it up and go'
 Now, them high power women
 Yeah!
 Now, I told my girl
 Week 'fore last
 The gate she jus' came in
 Just a little too fast
 She had to bottle it up an go
 She had to bottle it up an go'd
 An them high-power women
 (guitar)
 Yes, yeah
 Now, the nigger and the white man
 Playin', set 'em up
 Nigger beat the white man
 Was scared to pick it up
 'He had the bottle up and do what?'
 Had to bottle it up and go
 And them high-power women
 (guitar)
 Yeah
 Now, look-a-here, baby
 You stay last night?
 Ain't none a yo' business
 You don't do me right
 'You got t'
 (guitar)
 'Gotta do what?
 Tell me again, I don't understand?'
 I've got the bottle up and go'd
 I ain't gon' bother with 'em
 Now, them high-power women
 Yeah
 Now, nickel is a nickel
 A dime is a dime
 I don' need no girl
 If she want wine
 She has to
 (guitar)
 Had do what?
 Had to bottle up and go
 And them high-power women
 Yeah
 Now, my mama killed a chicken
 She thought it was a duck
 She put him on the table
 With the legs stickin' up
 He had-a (guitar)
 Had to do what?
 He had the bottle it up and go'd
 An them high-powered women
 Sho' got the bottle up and gone
 'Yeah, play it man-a
 Be-da, bee, bop, bop, bop
 Bo, de-dum, be-dum, bop, bop
 Bo, bom, bom, bom, bom
 Bee-da, bee-um, bop-um, bop-um, bop
 Bo, bop-um, bop-um, bop-bop, be-ba
 T-dee-da, t-dee-da
 T-da-da-da
 (guitar)
 Yeah!
 Uh-huh!
 Got the bottle up and go
 Got the bottle up and go
 Now, you high-power women
 Sho' got to bottle 'em up and go.
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 *Note: (Bluebird insert notes by M.K. Aldin)
 (brief & condensed) notes about this song)
 Big Bill Broonzy told Tommy not to use the 'n' word.
 But he got mad at Bill and said, 'Hell no, I'll
 Never change my song'. Big Bill said he knew
 Tommy was right, the way he felt about it because
 He had sang the same words in another song of his
 Before Tommy was born but knew better than to do
 It in the North...
 The next night Big Bill took Tommy to a party, Tommy
 Sang his version of 'Bottle It Up And Go.' The song flopped
 And Big Bill had to put Tommy out the window and they
 Ran 5 miles to one of Big Bill's friend's house.
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