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3. "Banana in Your Fruit Basket" - Bo Carter
Ok, so Muddy Waters prefers animals and Bo Carter prefers fresh produce. To each his own.
Favorite non-banana metaphor in the song? "Now, I got the washboard, my baby got the tub / We gonna put 'em together, gonna rub, rub, rub." Check out the complete lyrics.
4. "Big Ten-Inch Record" - "Bull Moose" Jackson
OK, big surprise, a guy with the nickname "Bull Moose" wants to brag about the size of his "record." Sorry Moose, we all know it's probably more like a mini-disc. I mean, if ya gotta talk about it, doesn't that mean you're a wee lil' bit insecure? This risqué R&B hit was famously covered by Aerosmith on their 1975 album Toys in the Attic. Same rule applies to Steven Tyler... be suspicious of those who boast!
5. "She Squeezed My Lemon" - Roosevelt Sykes
"Borrowing" is a pretty big part of the blues tradition. As a matter of fact, Robert Johnson seemingly "borrowed" the line "squeeze my lemon, 'til the juice run down my leg" from Sykes for his song "Traveling Riverside Blues," and Sykes seemingly borrowed the lemon metaphor from Joe Williams' "I Want It Awful Bad." So can we really hold it against old Robert Plant and Led Zeppelin's "The Lemon Song" for borrowing the line Robert Johnson had borrowed from Roosevelt Sykes, who'd borrowed it from Joe Williams, who borrowed it from some guy we'll never know? Maybe. But it's still a pretty cool song.
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There's also Lonnie Johnson's "Wipe it Off" ("Take your hands off my jelly roll, they been out in the cold"); Bo Carter's "Banana in Your Fruit Basket"; "Sam the Hot Dog Man," by Lil Johnson (whose name could even qualify); "He's Just My Size," by Lillie Mae Kirkman"; and Barrel House Annie's "If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It)."
Oops, just noticed you have "Banana in Your Fruit Basket." So I'll swap out that one for Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Black Snake Moan."
Let's not forget the ladies! "Black Snake Swing" by Victoria Spivey and "Hot Nuts" by Georgia White.
How about Lonnie Johnson's "Lead Pencil Blues." "Lead in my pencil but it just won't write..."