HE LIKES IT SLOW
W Benton Overstreet

as recorded by Jody & Susie Edwards (Butterbeans & Susie)
 with Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five  
 June 18th 1926 
 Chicago



[se]
I got the sweetest man you know,
I'm crazy 'bout him, but he's so slow!
And when he takes me out to have a dog,
He never hides the fact that he just makes me low.
What I'm tellin' you is true,
Everything that he goes to do.

Well hear!
He likes it slow when he goes today,
He likes it slow when he goes to pray,
Just like the snail, that man o' mine,
[je]
I never like to hurry, I just take my time.

[se]
When he calls he never bring no news,
Always got them slow down blues!
But when he starts to makin' love, oh gee!
And starts to huggin' me so tenderly,
The reason papa make a hit with me,
Because he likes it slow,
Early in the mornin',
Because he likes it slow!

When he calls he never bring no news,
Always got them slow down blues!
But when he starts to makin' love, oh gee!
[je]
Listen, when I start to huggin' you so tenderly,
And the reason papa Butterbean done made a hit with B,
[se]
Because I like it slow,
Early in the mornin',
Because I like it slow!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - February 2013)