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Keep On Truckin' Lyrics
Well now keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
Keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
Here you come mama big as sin, tell what you been doin' by the shape you're in
So keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
If you been doin' what I think you been doin' baby, can't do that 'round here
You been doin' what I think you been doin' baby, can't do that 'round here
Here you come mam big as hell, tell what you been doin' by way you smell
So keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
What's that smell like fish pretty baby, I really would like to know
Tell me What's that smell like fish oh mama, I really would like to know
That ain't puddin' baby ain't no pie, it's the stuff that I got you by
So keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
Now yes you gotta leave this mornin', get your yas yas outta my door
Now yes you gotta leave this mornin', get your yas yas outta my door
Ashes to ashes mama, dust to dust, what-cha gonna do when that damn thing rusts
So keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
Keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
Here you come mama big as sin, tell what you been doin' by the shape you're in
So keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
If you been doin' what I think you been doin' baby, can't do that 'round here
You been doin' what I think you been doin' baby, can't do that 'round here
Here you come mam big as hell, tell what you been doin' by way you smell
So keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
What's that smell like fish pretty baby, I really would like to know
Tell me What's that smell like fish oh mama, I really would like to know
That ain't puddin' baby ain't no pie, it's the stuff that I got you by
So keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
Now yes you gotta leave this mornin', get your yas yas outta my door
Now yes you gotta leave this mornin', get your yas yas outta my door
Ashes to ashes mama, dust to dust, what-cha gonna do when that damn thing rusts
So keep on truckin' mama, truckin' my blues away
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I have no clue what this song is about but I always think of it being about a prostitute coming into a new town.
i am upset by the general lack of comments on hot tuna's songs. they just don't make artists like they used to. this song is my anthem ... keep on truckin' mamaaaa
"Trucking" was an old African-American euphemism for having sex (rhyming slang, in this case). The connection is more obvious in the lyrics of the 1936 Blind Boy Fuller version (titled "Truckin' My Blues Away"), which I think is the first recording of the song.
While like a lot of Jazz and Blues inspired longs and dances it certainly has sexual connotations, Truckin' is a jazz dance move. It was popularized by white students who discovered a black dance club called the "Big Apple" in the 1930s. They popularized "The Big Apple," a call-out where dancers performed dances they'd learned from the club. Truckin' was known long before R Crumb depicted it in his cartoon. The Cod Fish Ball has "Tunas trucking left and right," Bing Crosby and Donald O'Conner sing of "double truckin down the avenue" Back in the Old Routine, and the Crows in Dumbo "know of a man who made a vegetable truck" and then perform the trucking move.
@MizVixi The song is about an obese woman with a vaginal infection ("smell like fish"), a love of masturbation with a vibrator ("what you gonna do when that damn thing rusts"). I saw Jourma up close is a bar in the deep South (U.S.). I tried to get him to do this song without success - I guess he was afraid of offending the southern evangelists ( you know, those people who were descendents of slave owners).
@MizVixi The song is about an obese woman with a vaginal infection ("smell like fish"), a love of masturbation with a vibrator ("what you gonna do when that damn thing rusts"). I saw Jourma up close is a bar in the deep South (U.S.). I tried to get him to do this song without success - I guess he was afraid of offending the southern evangelists ( you know, those people who were descendents of slave owners).
glskillj is right that this is based on an old (and rather raunchy) blues song. The booklet for the 1996 CD quotes Jorma Koukonen: "It was just a song I learned at Antioch College. Basically, the singer is accusing his woman of infidelity based on the shape she's in, the way she smells, etc. Then he finally tells her to get out.
I screwed up the quote, but, yeah...
I screwed up the quote, but, yeah...