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Ice key of G
by The Fat Chance Jug Band (with a tip of the hat to Jennie Mae
Clayton) instrumental intro Ice Cream habit's mighty bad It's the worst old habit that I ever had Hey, hey, honey take a lick on me I went to the co-op on the scene Saw a sign on the window Says 'outta praline' Hey, hey, honey have a lick on me If ya don't believe Ice Cream is good Ask any woman in the neighborhood Hey, hey, honey scoop a lick on me I love my Jerry and I love my Ben I love Ice Cream and don't need no men Hey, hey, honey have a lick on me Since Ice Cream went into style You can catch 'em spoon it down all the while Hey, hey, honey have a lick on me Well, it takes a little chocolate to give me ease Slap it on your thighs long as you please Hey, hey, honey lick a pint on me instrumental Well, it takes a little chocolate to give me ease Slap it on your thighs long as you please Hey, hey, honey lick a pint on me instrumental repeat last verse |
 "The Memphis Jug Band's Cocaine Habit Blues,
while an exceptional song, just hit a close nerve after seeing the damage done by said habit to
some of our friends and neighbors, and we finally just decided to stop
doing it. (Well, maybe once in a while we'd play it at practice just to
be naughty).
But it's such a fun melody... finally I took the bull by the horns, modifying it to a point of semi-respectability after observing more times than I would care to admit the preference of persons of the fairer gender to the company of Messers Ben and Jerry to that of myself and my fellows (alack! alas!). At any rate the reworked tune was only attempted once, then shelved for a few months. We dusted it off recently, reworked some over-fusssyness I originally had in the choruses and voila! - a new favorite!" Al P.S. A reissue CD came out recently
that has been getting some airplay on KFAI, containing a Mississippi
string band called Freeny’s Barn Dance
Band, which did more or less the some thing with this Memphis Jug Band
song when they changed it to Croquet
Habits back in 1930.
So much for original idears..... |
