Transcribed from vocals by Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, recorded July
22, 1927.
From Frankie
"Half-Pint" Jaxon, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol.
1. 1926-1929, Document Records, DOCD-5258.
This same recording also appears on Viper
Mad Blues, Mojo Records, CD-MOJO-306.
[Scatting]
Have you heard the story, folks,
of Willie the Weeper?
Willie's occupation was a chimney
sweeper,
He had a dreamin' habit, he had
it kind of bad,
Listen, let me tell you 'bout the
dream he had:
Dreamed he bought a hound from a
man that lived in Turkey,
He told the gal who's dancing to
make it kind of jerky,
Danced until she wore the carpets
off the floor,
And said, you haven't done nothing,
just do it once more!
At the North Pole, someone shouted
"Willie!"
Turned around and saw a sight that
knocked him silly.
Right before him in the zero breeze,
A cutie [?] dancing in his BVDs.
He walked around, and his feet started
freezin'
Someone said, "Cutie, better listen
to reason."
Says, "I want my coffee, want it
good and strong,
I want to have biscuits eighteen
inches long!"
Now tell me, what would you do
If you could have all of your dreams
come true?
There's something tells me that
you'd lock your door
Like Willie the Weeper, and cry
for more.
[Scatting and cackling]
Now take my little ship, dream's
about over,
Called the best from up on the
shore
Hump on a camel, hump on a flea,
Put them two humps together, you
got nothing on me!
Now tell me, what would you do
If you could have all of your dreams
come true?
There's something tells me that
you'd lock your door,
Like Willie the Weeper, and cry
for - please go 'way and let me sleep!
Don't disturb my slumber deep,
Something tells me that you'd lock
your door,
Like Willie the Weeper, and cry
for more, more, more, more, more.
Pieces included on this CD are:
1) Hannah
Fell in Love with my Piano
2) If That Don't Get It - This
One Will
3) Can't
You Wait Till You Get Home
4) I'm
Gonna Steal You
5) Willie
the Weeper
6) She Got "It"
7) I'm Gonna Dance Wit De Guy Wot
Brung Me
8) Corinne
9) Hit Ta Ditty Low Down
10) Down at Jasper's Bar-B-Que
11) How Can I Get It?
12) Fan It
13) Fan It
14) My Four Reasons
15) Rock Me Mama
16) Let's Knock a Jug
17) Can You Wait Till You Get Home
18) She's Coming Round the Mountain
19) Get the "L" on Down the Road
20) Don't Drink It in Here
21) It's Heated
22) Jive Man Blues
23) Corinne Blues
24) Operation Blues
Pieces included on this CD are:
1) Kickin'
the Gong Around by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
2) Dope Head Blues by Victoria Spivey
3) Cocaine Habit Blues by the Memphis Jug Band
4) Pipe Dream Blues by Hazel Meyers
5) Smoking Reefers by Larry Adler
6) Take a Whiff on Me by Huddie Ledbetter
7) Killin' Jive by the Cats and the Fiddle (from the
movie, "The Duke is Tops")
8) You'se a Viper by Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys
9) The Stuff is Here and It's Mellow by Cleo Brown
10) Reefer Man by Baron Lee and the Blue Rhythm Band
11) The Onyx Hop by Frankie Newton and his Uptown Serenaders
12) Knockin' Myself Out by Lil Green
13) Junker's Blues by Champion Jack Dupree
14) Reefer Hound Blues by Curtis Jones
15) The Reefer Song by Fats Waller
16) I'm Feelin' High and Happy by Gene Krupa and his
Orchestra
17) When I Get Low, I Get High by Ella Fitzgerald
18) Ol' Man River (Smoke a Little Tea) by Cootie Williams
and his Rug Cutters
19) Blue Reefer Blues by Richard M. Jones and his Jazz
Wizards
20) Cocaine by Dick Justice
21) Reefer Head Woman by Jazz Gillum and his Jazz Boys
22) Willie
the Weeper by Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon
23) Cocaine Blues by Luke Jordan
24) Blue Drag by Freddy Taylor and His Swing Men from
Harlem
25) A Viper's Moan by Willie Bryant and his Orchestra
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