My Dirty Dozen - Speckled Red

Now, I want all you womenfolks to fall in line

Shake your shimmy like I’m shaking mine

You shake your shimmy and you shake it fast

You can’t shake your shimmy, shake your yes, yes, yes

Now you’s a dirty mistreater, robber and a cheater

Slip you in the dozen, your pappy is your cousin

Your mama do the lordy-lord

Yonder go your mama going out across the field

Running and shaking like an automobile

I hollered at your mama and I told her to wait

She slipped away from me like a Cadillac Eight

Now she’s a running mistreater, robber and a cheater

Pappy is your cousin, slip you in the dozen

Your mama do the lordy-lord

I like your mama and like your sister too

I did like your daddy, but your daddy wouldn’t do

I met your daddy on the corner the other day

You know by that that he was funny that way

So now he’s a funny mistreater, robber and a cheater

Slip you in the dozen, your papa is your cousin

Your mama do the lordy-lord

God made him an elephant and he made him stout

He wasn’t satisfied until he made him a snout

Made his snout just as long as a rail

He wasn’t satisfied until he made him a tail

He made his tail just to fan the flies

He wasn’t satisfied until he made some eyes

He made his eyes to look over the grass

Wasn’t satisfied until he made his yes, yes, yes

Made his yes, yes, yes and didn’t get it fixed

Wasn’t satisfied until it made him sick

It made him sick, Lord, it made him well

You know by that the elephant caught hell

Now he’s a dirty mistreater, robber and a cheater

Slip you in the dozen, your pappy is your cousin

Your mama do the lordy-lord