DESCRIPTION:
Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)" is a song written by husband and wife team Coot Grant & Wesley Wilson in 1933 for which this song was most famously sung by Bessie Smith in the same year.

Billie's accompanied by Buck Clayton, Lester "Shad" Collins, Bobby Williams (trumpet); Henderson Chambers, George Stevenson (trombone); Pete Clark, George Dorsey (alto saxophone); Budd Johnson, Freddie Williams (tenor saxophone); Dave McRae (baritone saxophone); Horace Henderson (piano); Everett Barksdale (guitar); Joe Benjamin (bass); and Wallace Bishop (drums). Recorded in New York City, September 8, 1949. (Decca Records)

Up in Harlem every Saturday night
Where the highbrows get together
It's just too right
They all congregate and all night hop
And what they do is Ooh boppa da

Old Hanna Brown from way across town
Gets full of corn and starts
Bringing them down
And at the break of day
You can hear old Hanna say

Gimme me a pig foot and a bottle of beer
Send me a gate I don't care
I feel just like I want to clown
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's bringing me down

He's got rhythm yeah, when he stomps his feet
He sends me right off to sleep
Cheek all your razors and your guns
We're gonna be arrested when the wagon comes

Gimme a pig foot and a bottle of beer
Send me cause I don't care

I want a pig foot and a bottle of gin
Send me Daddy move right in
I feel just like I want to shout
Give the piano player a drink
Because he's knocking me out

He's got rhythm when he stomps his feet
He moves me right off to sleep
Check all your razors and your guns
Do the Hucklebuck until the rising sun

Gimme a pig foot and a bottle of gin
Move me, 'cause I'm in my sin
Gimme a pig foot and a bottle of beer