TAKE A WHIFF ON ME
Huddie Ledbetter

Take A Whiff On Me   Trk 10
Huddie Ledbetter
Recorded: July 16-20, 1933, 
Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, La 
Album: Alan Lomax Popular Songbook 
Rounder Select Records (released Aug 26, '03) 1863
(original recording remastered) SACD 



('Now, won't you please, sing the whole song for me')
(Sing it!)


Take a whiff on me
Take a whiff on me
And ev'rybody take a whiff on me
Ha-ha, baby take a whiff on me


Went up Ellum
And I comed down Main
Tried to bum a nickel
Just to buy cocaine there, an-a ho-ho
Baby take a whiff on me


What I tell ya somethin's gonna
Make your mind tickelin'
Two bars a-coke, can't find bum nickel
An-a ha-ha, baby take a whiff on me


Now, you oughta see that pitchin' ol lamb
Just trade your dollar 
And he gave 'em a heifer and a hoss
Baby take a whiff on me
(Save a whiff, save a good hoss for me) 


Take a whiff on me
Take a whiff on me
An e'rybody take a whiff on me
And-a ho-ho, baby take a whiff on me
(Take a whiff, save a good hoss for me) 


When I was down to the Dallas king boss
The judge he found me
A ten inch holster and a hoss
Baby, take a whiff on me


Take me down into the Dallas Jail
And they told me, boy I'll never bail there
An-a ho-ho, baby take a whiff on me
(Take a whiff, take a whiff on me)


Take a whiff on me
Take a whiff on me
An ev'rybody take a whiff on me
Ha-ha, baby take a whiff on me
(Don't finish, don't finish it)


When I'm married 
Gonna buy me a line
Whup a-my baby
Just to change her mind 
And let her ho-ho, baby take a whiff on me


When I'm married 
Gonna buy me a rope
Gonna whip my baby
Til she Buzzard Loper
And a ho-ho, baby take a whiff on me


Take a whiff on me
Take a whiff on me
Said, ev'rybody take a whiff on me
And ho-ho, baby take a whiff on me


<'Ya'll sing it, right soft'>


Take a whiff on me
Take a whiff on me
An e'rybody take a whiff on me
Said-a oh-ho, baby take a whiff on me.


'That's it'
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(Contributed by AwC - April 2008)