Songtext Heck of a how-do-you-do Tampa Red

Heck of a how-do-you-do

Heck Of A How-Do-You-Do Trk 17 Dsc 2 2:43 song 40
Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) And The Chicago Five
Aurora, Illinois, March 14, 1938 Leland Hotel Top Floor
Tampa Red- vocal & guitar, unk - trumpet
Poss. Bill Owsley - tenor sax, prob. Blind John Davis - piano
Unk string bass (poss. imitation sb)
Album: The Bluebird Recordings - Tampa Red 1936 - 1938
2 Disc set RCA 07863 66722-2 1997 BMG

It's above imagination
How I love and used to hate you
Gee I know, it's a heck of a how-do-you-do

There is something funny about you
Makes me love and yet I doubt ya
But gee I know, it's a heck of a how-do-you-do

Now you rub my head, you hold my hand
I used to think you meant it
But I done found out it's make-believe
An I know we're in it, love

I can't quit you, for I have tried it
You got me jealous and I can't hide it
Gee I know, it's a heck of a how-do-you-do

'Yas, yas, play it now'

(coronet)

'Ah, yas'
'Ooh, yeah'
'I hear ya'

'Ev'rybody cut that rug, there'

'Ever heard that old word, ladies and gentlemen
'Do it with rhythm ya'all go on'

(piano)

'Swing, now'

(alto sax)

'Oh, yeah'

'Hot they like it'

It's above imagination
How I love and used to hate you
But gee I know, it's a heck of a how-do-you-do

There is something funny about you
Makes me love and yet I doubt ya
But gee I know, it's a heck of a how-do-you-do

Now you rub my head, you hold my hand
I used to think you meant it
But I done found out that it's make-believe
An I know we're in it, love

I can't quit you, for I have tried it
You got me jealous and I can't hide it
Gee I know, it's a heck of a how-do-you-do-ooo
Yas, yas, yas.

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