Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer chords by Bessie Smith

Intro, spoken:
N.C.
Twenty five cents? Ha! No-no
I wouldn't pay twenty-five cents to get into nowhere!

Cuz' listen here


Verse 1:
C7
Up in Harlem every Saturday night
     F7           F
When the highbrows get together its just too tight
   G7          Cm        C7
They all congregate at an all night strut
F          A#
And what they do is tut-tut-tut

Verse 2:
C7
Ol' Hannah Brown, from cross town
F7
Gets full of corn and starts breaking 'em down
F7
And at the break of day
            A#7
You can hear ol' Hannah say


Chorus 1:
    D#
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
C7
Send me again. I don't care
F7         A#7
I feel just like I wanna clown
D#                     A#7     D#
Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down!

D#
He's gotta rhythm, yeah! When he stomps his feet
  C7              A#7
He sends me right off to sleep
D#       G7   C7
Check all your razors and your guns
C7              F7  A#7   G#7
We gonna be rasslin' when the wagon comes

A#7   D#           C7
I wanna pigfoot and a bottle of beer
F7      A#7   D#7   C7
Send me cause I don't care
F7      A#7      D#
Blame me cause I don't care


Chorus 2:
A#7   D#
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
C7
Send me again
I don't care
F7        A#7
I feel just like I wanna clown
D                     A#7     D#
Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down

D#
He's got rhythm, yeah, when he stomps his feet
  C7              A#7
He sends me right off to sleep
D#       G7   C7
Check all your razors and your guns
C7                F7   A#7  G#7
Do the Shim-Sham Shimmy 'til the rising sun

A#7    D#          C7
Give me a reefer and a gang of gin
F7        A#7  D#  C7
Play me cause I'm in my sin
F7         A#7   D#
Blame me cause I'm full of gin.