Say Bossman - Bo Diddley

Clifton James or Frank Kirkland — drums

Peggy Jones — bking vocal, Jerome Green — maracas,

Lafayette Leake — piano, poss.

Harvey Fuqua male vocal.

Recorded Aug. 15, 1957, Originally Checker single #878

B0009231−02 Hipo Select (Geffen) 2007

A-huh-huh (a-um)

A-huh-huh (a-um)

I got nineteen kids at home gotta eat

Eighteen of 'em need shoes on their feet

Boss man can’t you see?

All nineteen kids I’ve gotta feed

Ooh-oooh-ho-oh

Ooh-hoooh-oh

Early this mo’nin landlord knock on do’s

Don’t pay the rent boy you gotta go

Three days, three months in arrears

Five days notice you move away from here

(Piano & chorus)

Worked all day any overtime

Nineteen kids drive me outta my mind

Ooh-hoho-oh-oh

Ooh-hoho-ho-oh

Place I used to work they went on a strike

No use tryin' they’ll never take me back

A-huh-huh (a-um)

(A-huh-huh) a-huh-huh, move (hey) (a-um) (hey)

Never gonna move (hey) (a-um) (hey)

(A-huh-huh) I gotta move (a-um)

FADES-

(A-huh-huh) uh-huh-huh.