Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Now you've heard the rest

Ah boys, I'm gonna show you the best

Ma Rainey's gonna show you her black bottom

Way down south in Alabamy

I got a friend they call dancin' Sammy

Who's crazy about all the latest dances

Black bottom stomps and the jew baby prances

The other night at a swell affair

Soon as the boys found out that I was there

They said "Come on Ma, let's go to the cabaret

Where that band you ought to hear me say"

I wanna see that dance

You call the black bottom

I wanna learn that dance

Don't you see the dance

You call your big black bottom

That'll put you in a trance

All the boys in the neighborhood

They say your black bottom is really good

Come on and show me your black bottom

I wanna learn that dance

I wanna see the dance you call the black bottom

I wanna learn that dance

Come on and show that dance

You call your big black bottom

It puts you in a trance

Early last morning 'bout the break of day

Grandpa told my grandma, I heard him say

"Get up and show your old man your black bottom

I wanna learn that dance"

Now I'm gonna show y'all my black bottom

They stay to see that dance

Wait until you see me do my big black bottom

It'll put you in a trance

Ah, do it Ma, do it, honey

Look it now, Ma

You gettin' kinda rough here

You gotta be yourself now, careful now

Not too strong, not too strong, Ma

I done shown y'all my black bottom

You ought to learn that dance