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The Story of Bo Diddley 2: 54 Trk 24 Disc 1
(Ellas McDaniel)
Bo Diddley - vocal & guitar, Jerome Green - maracas
Otis Spann - piano, Clifton James - drums.
Originally Checker single #942, 1959
MCA Records #CH319502
I was born one night about twelve o'clock
(Ha-ha-ha)
I come in this world playin' a gold guitar
My father was around stickin' out his chest
(Hee-hee)
A-now, mama this boy he gon fee' you a mess
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha)
Yeah! Yea-ha, Ooh, uh-huh
Now, people came from miles around
Yeah, just to hear my little guitar sound
Now, some of 'em said I had what it takes
If I keep on practice I'd be famous one day
(Ha-ha)
Woo, I'm a mess!
I'm a killer-diller
Uh-huh, yea-hey, a-uh, uh-huh
Early in the middle of the night
A car drove up with four headlights
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha)
Now, a man stepped out wit' a long cigar
He said, 'Sign this line and I can make you a star'
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha)
I said, 'Now, what's in it man, what's in it for me?'
He says, 'I'd, play yo' guitar son and wait an see'
Here I am! (heh-heh-heh, heeee)
The girls liked me, they say, 'It's crazy, it sound nice
Uuh-uuh
My first engagement was in Chicago
I played fo' some people I'd never seen before
It was good too (ha-ha-ha-ha)
They like it
Sound nice
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha)
Yeah, ah-ha-ha-ha
Yeah, man
FADES-
I'm killer-diller
I'm 'on killa diller.
- Album:
- Bo Diddley and Company plus Bo Diddley’s a Twister
- Miscellaneous
- Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger
- Have Guitar, Will Travel
- Bo Diddley in the Spotlight
- Go Bo Diddley
- Bo Diddley
- 16 All Time Greatest Hits
- Chess Box
- His Best
- Non-Album Releases
- Wilko Johnson Presents: The First Time I Met The Blues
- The Essential Bo Diddley
- The Chess Box
- Who Do You Love
- Best Of, Volume 1: 1955-1958
- Diddley Daddy
- The Chess Story
- ABC of the Blues
- Hey!