Skinny Leg Blues

DESCRIPTION: Singer is "a little bitty mama ... got everything a little bitty mama needs." "I've got little bitty legs ... something underneath works like a boar hog's eye." She makes her lover "whine" but she would cut his throat: " graveyard be your resting place"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1930 (StuffDreams1)
KEYWORDS: sex warning bawdy nonballad lover
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Geeshie Wiley, "Skinny Leg Blues" (on StuffDreams1)
NOTES [101 words]: Three line blues: the first line is repeated -- more or less -- and the last line completes the thought.
I need some help with the reference to "skinny leg." Singer is not a "Big Leg Woman." If she were, says Johnny Temple (Decca 7547, 1938) "if you roll her belly like you roll her dough, Let you down so easy till you want some more." Jerry Lee Lewis, in his cover (Sun SI-1119,1970) of Temple, says, "Big leg women keep your dresses down... You've got something up under there make me want to lay down" So, the singer here does not look like a big legged woman. Nevertheless, she will not be put down. - BS
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