Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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Way down south in Alabamy  
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I got a friend, they call dancin' Sammy  
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Who's crazy about all the latest dances  
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Black bottom stomps and the Jew baby prances  

F  
The other night at a swell affair  
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Soon as the boys found out that I was there  
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They said, "Come on, Ma let's go to the cabaret"  
C7  
Where that band you ought to hear me say"  

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I want to see that dance you call the black bottom  
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I wanna learn that dance  
C7  
Don't you see the dance you call your big black bottom  
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That'll put you in a trance  

1.   
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All the boys in the neighborhood  
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They say your black bottom is really good  
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Come on and show me your black bottom  
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I want to learn that dance  

2.   
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Early last morning 'bout the break of Day  
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Grandpa told my grandma, I heard him say  
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Get up and show your old man your black bottom  
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I want to learn that dance