MY SWEET HUNK OF TRASH (version 2)


James Price Johnson (m) Flourney E Miller (l)
Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong w Sy Oliver & his Orch   

rec 30thr September 1949 New York


[bh] You don't add up to much,
     Ain't got that glamour touch,
     You're trifling lazy and worth a cigarette ash!
[la] Look out there, mama, look out there!
     You carryin' me too fast, watch it baby!
[bh] You're just my good for nothin',
     My sweet hunk o' trash!
[la] My my, how you sound!


[bh] You're very short on looks,
[la] Hear hear hear!
[bh] Dumb when it comes to books,
[la] Look out baby, watch it honey!
[bh] And you stay full of corn just like sochertash!
[la] Whatd'you want me to do in my idle moments?
[bh] Youre just a good for nothim',
     But my sweet hunk o' trash!
[la] Let me get a word in there honey,
     You runnin' your mouth!


     You say I've worried you for years,
     I'm just a barfly moochin' beers,
     Whikle you sweat over a hot stove, slingin' hash.
[bh] Worked my fingers right down to the elbows!
[la] Yes, I may be good for nothin',
     But I'm still your sweet hunk o' trash!
[bh] Forced to admit it, baby, forced to admit it!


[la] You said I spread my love all around,
     And with the chicks all over town,
     But how can I when you keep me broke,
     So I can't spend no cash?
     Yes, I may be good for nothin',
     But I'm still your sweet hunk o' trash!


[bh] Listen here pops,
     You know you lie about your youth,
[la} I don't lie, baby,
     I'm just careless with the truth, that's all!
[bh] How careless can you be?
[la] I don't know.
[bh] With all young chicks you try to make a flash,
[la] Now baby, I didn't mean it like that, no!
[bh] But you're still my good for nothin'
     My sweet hunk o' trash!


     Now when you stay out very late,
     It sure makes me mad to wait,
[la] How come baby?
[bh] 'Cause you come home too tired to raise one eyelash!
[la] Watch it baby, watch it!
[bh] You're just good for nothin',
     But you're my sweet hunk o' trash!
[la] Yes indeed!




note - version 1 was withdrawn and replaced by version 2 
shortly after initial release following complaints 
because line 3 of the last verse was -
             [la] F--- 'em baby!
However, compilation cd's may contain either version


     








(Contributed by Peter Akers - April 2008)