A Couple From My Inner Soundtrack
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Have you ever heard about Willie the Weeper?
Had a job as a chimney sweeper,
He had the dope habit and he had it bad,
Listen while I tell you about a dream he had,
He went down to the dope shop one Saturday night,
He knew the lights would all be burning bright,
Well I guess he smoked a dozen pills or more,
When he woke up he was on a foreign shore,
The Queen of Sheba was the first he met,
She called him lovey-dovey and honey pet,
She gave him a great big automobile,
With a diamond headlight and a golden wheel,
Down in Honolulu Willie fell in a trance,
Seein' the dusky beauties do the Hula dance,
His sweetie got in jail and Willie sure did shout,
When he got the news that she had wiggled out,
He landed with a splash in the river Nile,
Ridin' on a seagoin' crocodile,
He winked at Cleopatra, she said "Ain't he a sight"
'n' he said, "How 'bout a date for next Saturday night?"
He had a million cattle and he had a million sheep,
Had a million vessels on the ocean deep,
Had a million dollars all in nickels and dimes,
Well he knew because he counted it a thousand times,
He landed in New York one evenin’ late,
He asked his sugar for an after-date,
Started to kiss her and she started to pout,
When bang-blang!
And the dope gave out!
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five - Left to right: Johnny St. Cyr, Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, and Lil Hardin-Armstrong.
Willie The Weeper published by Morris Edwin H & Co Inc in 1908.
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