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Oh, the black bottom of the Swanee river
Sometimes like to shake and shiveer,
But it makes the darkies feel like struttin' around, I watchin'!
They found a way to imitate it;
I know they exaggerate it,
But I wish that you could see the dance that they found!
Every high brown gal and her bon-bon buddy
Go down where the tracks are muddy
To do a step that soon will be renowned!
They call it black bottom, a new twister,
Sure got 'em, oh sister!
They clap their hands and do a raggedy trot, it's hot!
Old fellows with lumbago,
With high yellers, away they go!
They jump right in and give it all that they've got!
They say that when the river bottom covered with ooze,

Start in to squirm,
Couples dance, here's the movement they use,
Just like a worm!
Black bottom,
A new rhythm,
When you spot 'em,
You go with 'em!
And do that black black bottom all the day long!
They say that when the river bottom covered with ooze,
Start in to squirm,
Couples dance, here's the movement they use,
Just like a worm!
Black bottom,
A new rhythm,
When you spot 'em,
You go with 'em!
And do that black black bottom all the day long,
All day long, long, all day long!
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Lyrics submitted by Mike Ballantyne.

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Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognised as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. As a youth, Carter lived in Harlem around the corner from Bubber Miley who was Duke Ellington's star trumpeter. Carter was inspired by Miley and bought a trumpet, but when he found he couldn't play like Miley he traded the trumpet in for a saxophone.

Read more about Benny Carter on Last.fm.


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