John Lee Hooker (c. August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) Blues Singer

John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (Clarksdale, Mississippi, 22 agosto 1917 – Los Altos, California, 21 giugno 2001) è stato un cantante, chitarrista e compositore statunitense di musica blues.
Nato in una famiglia di musicisti del Mississippi, John Lee Hooker è il cugino di Earl Hooker. Sono famose le sue esibizioni in stile parlato (Talking blues) e il suo stile boogie ostinato, divenuti le sue prerogative caratteristiche. La sua musica, da un punto di vista della ritmica, è libera, come da tradizione comune ai primi blues acustici dei musicisti provenienti dall'area del cosiddetto Delta del Mississippi.
John Lee Hooker ha inciso oltre 100 album. Tra i vari riconoscimenti: una stella nella Hollywood Walk of Fame e, nel 1991, l'inclusione nell'elenco della Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; due sue canzoni, Boom Boom e Boogie Chillen, figurano rispettivamente nelle classifiche The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll e Songs of the Century.
Usava per lo più una chitarra elettrica Epiphone Sheraton.

Biografia

John Lee Hooker nacque il 22 agosto 1917 nella contea di Cohaoma, nei pressi di Clarksdale, nel Mississippi. Hooker nacque come undicesimo figlio di mezzadri (William Hooker, inoltre predicatore battista, e Minnie Ramsey) delle piantagioni della cosiddetta "cotton-belt" nel sud degli Stati Uniti. Ai numerosi figli della coppia era permesso di ascoltare unicamente canti religiosi, così il piccolo John fu precocemente influenzato dalla musica degli spirituals che ascoltava alle celebrazioni nelle chiese.
Nel 1921 i genitori divorziarono e l'anno successivo John, con la madre risposatasi con William Moore, traslocò a Clarksdale. Il patrigno era un cantante blues e gli diede le prime nozioni chitarristiche di base. Hooker, in seguito, definì lo stile di Moore come molto personale e originale, attribuendogli una grande influenza musicale sul proprio stile.
Will Moore suonava saltuariamente con Charley Patton quando quest'ultimo si esibiva nei dintorni di Clarksdale. Moore era cresciuto in Louisiana e il suo stile si differenziava da quello prevalente nel Delta: i suoi brani erano composti da un unico, ripetitivo, ipnotico accordo che andava avanti ostinatamente. Hooker fece proprio questo modo di suonare trasformandolo in un segno inconfondibile del proprio stile. Blind Lemon Jefferson e Blind Blake si recavano spesso a casa di Moore per suonare: furono esperienze significative per il piccolo Hooker, che iniziò a fare del blues la propria vita.
John seguì le orme del suo patrigno e cominciò a suonare nelle feste del suo paese finché, dopo aver trascorso una decina di anni a Cincinnati cantando in svariati cori gospel, nel 1943, mosso dal bisogno lavorativo, emigrò verso il Michigan, nella città di Detroit. Qui, lavorando in una fabbrica di automobili, prese residenza fino al 1969. Divenne assiduo frequentatore dei locali di raduni blues di Hastings Street, il cuore della musica e dello spettacolo nero nella zona est di Detroit. Fu in questo ambito che diede corpo alla sua vocazione di musicista blues, col suo inconfondibile canto rurale, grezzo ed elegante al tempo stesso, cadenzato da un inconfondibile boogie-riff vocale.
Nel 1948 la carriera discografica di Hooker ebbe inizio con il singolo Boogie Chillen, inciso nello studio di registrazione vicino alla Wayne State University. Malgrado fosse analfabeta, era un paroliere piuttosto prolifico: accanto ai tradizionali argomenti dei testi blues, costruiti su temi ricorrenti, egli sviluppò parte della sua produzione in maniera originale e innovativa, rifacendosi alla tradizione ma al tempo stesso proponendo nuovi temi. Gli studi di registrazione negli anni cinquanta spesso pagavano molto poco i musicisti neri, perciò Hooker iniziò a trascorrere le notti passando di studio in studio e proponendo sempre nuove canzoni o variazioni a ognuna di esse. I brani furono registrati, secondo le condizioni contrattuali, sotto lo pseudonimo di John Lee Booker, Johnny Hooker o John Cooker.
Le canzoni soliste del suo primo periodo furono registrate sotto la supervisione di Bernie Besman. John Lee Hooker suonava con uno stile libero e improvvisato, molto raramente con un ritmo standard: i cambi di tempo erano la norma, funzionali all'andamento della canzone e ai cambiamenti di umore di cui essa era permeata. Ciò rese molto difficile eseguire delle sovraincisioni, per questo i suoi brani di quel periodo risultano spesso sostenuti da un battere ostinato sulla cassa della chitarra o su un'asse di legno, espediente dalla forte espressività impiegato su spinta di Besman.
Gli anni sessanta videro la sua definitiva consacrazione presso il grande pubblico: ingente notorietà gli venne attribuita dalle numerose cover tributate dai complessi rock della scena britannica, frutto della sua tournée del 1963 in Gran Bretagna. Nel 1980 è apparso ed ha cantato nel film musical The Blues Brothers: lo stile improvvisato di Hooker ha permesso la registrazione dal vivo in presa diretta, diversamente dal playback che solitamente si utilizza nelle registrazioni cinematografiche. Il 1989 è l'anno dell'album The Healer, opera a cui hanno collaborato diversi artisti di fama quali Keith Richards e Carlos Santana. L'album guadagnò un premio Grammy Award. Dello stesso periodo alcune registrazioni con Van Morrison (Never Get Out of These Blues Alive, The Healing Game, I Cover the Waterfront) e le apparizioni dal vivo con lo stesso artista, pubblicate dal vivo nell'album A Night in San Francisco.
Nel 2001 la malattia, poco prima del tour europeo, e di lì a poco il decesso all'età di 83 anni. L'ultima collaborazione del bluesman americano risale proprio al 2001. Ormai minato dalla malattia, collabora con il cantante italiano Zucchero Fornaciari nell'incisione del brano Ali d'oro (I lay down nella versione internazionale), incluso nell'album di inediti Shake.

La musica

Lo stile chitarristico di John Lee Hooker è molto vicino allo stile boogie woogie per pianoforte. Le linee di basso, tenute col pollice, le pause di enfasi alla fine dei fraseggi e una serie di effetti, legature, picchettati veloci e vibrati hanno generato il suo stile personale, che affonda le radici nelle tecniche tradizionali del blues acustico, ma che si evolve anche verso uno stile più incalzante e ipnotico.
Segno distintivo è la composizione che si articola, nel tema principale, attorno a un unico accordo suonato in maniera ostinata e ipnotica, eredità dello stile della Louisiana mutuato dal patrigno. I brani che più di tutti rappresentano il suo stile iniziale sono l'euforia giovanile di Boogie Chillen, il blues da manuale Baby Please Don't Go, la tragica testimonianza dell'inondazione di Tupelo (nel Mississippi).
Hooker ha sempre portato avanti una carriera da solista, forma che ha sempre incontrato l'ampio riscontro degli appassionati e degli estimatori del blues e del folk dei primi anni sessanta. Ha contribuito alla diffusione del blues anche fuori dai confini della comunità nera americana. Con la vecchiaia il suo gruppo di musicisti si è ampliato proponendo, di concerto in concerto, le più diverse formazioni, dal solo Hooker solista con voce e chitarra, alla banda al completo con Hooker solo cantante.
Il suo fraseggio vocale è molto più disconnesso dalle battute, rispetto a quanto di solito accade nel blues. La voce, quasi melodrammatica, rispecchia la tradizione del blues del Mississippi. Il suo stile casuale e improvvisato è andato diminuendo con l'introduzione della chitarra elettrica, sebbene l'intensità espressiva non sia mai venuta meno, grazie anche alla maggiore ricchezza di arrangiamenti.

Discografia

Album

• 1959 - Folk Blues
• 1959 - House of The Blues
• 1959 - The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker
• 1960 - Blues Man
• 1960 - I'm John Lee Hooker
• 1960 - That's My Story
• 1960 - Travelin'
• 1961 - John Lee Hooker Sing The Blues
• 1961 - Plays and Sings the Blues
• 1961 - The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker
• 1962 - Burnin'
• 1962 - Drifting the Blues
• 1962 - The Blues
• 1962 - Tupelo Blues
• 1963 - Don't Turn Me from Your Door: John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues
• 1964 - Burning Hell
• 1964 - Great Blues Sounds
• 1964 - I Want to Shout the Blues
• 1964 - The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker
• 1964 - The Great John Lee Hooker (Japan only)
• 1965 - Hooker & The Hogs
• 1966 - It Serves You Right to Suffer
• 1966 - The Real Folk Blues
• 1967 - Live at Cafè Au Go-Go
• 1968 - Hooked on Blues
• 1969 - Get Back Home
• 1969 - If You Miss'Im I Got'Im
• 1969 - Simply The Truth
• 1969 - That's Where It's At!
• 1969 - Get Back Home (First Issue)
• 1970 - If You Miss 'Im...I Got 'Im
• 1970 - John Lee Hooker on the Waterfront
• 1970 - Moanin' and Stompin' Blues
• 1971 - Endless Boogie
• 1971 - Goin' Down Highway 51
• 1971 - Half a Stranger
• 1971 - Hooker'n'Heat/Infinite boogie
• 1971 - I Feel Good
• 1971 - Never Get Out of These Blues Alive
• 1972 - Detroit Special
• 1972 - Live at Soledad Prison
• 1973 - Born in Mississippi, Raised Up in Tennessee
• 1974 - Free Beer And Chicken
• 1974 - Mad Man Blues
• 1976 - Alone
• 1976 - In Person
• 1977 - Black Snake
• 1977 - Dusty Road
• 1978 - The Cream
• 1979 - Sad and Lonesome
• 1980 - Everybody Rockin'
• 1980 - Sittin' Here Thinkin'
• 1981 - Hooker 'n' Heat (Recorded Live at the Fox Venice Theatre)
• 1987 - Jealous
• 1988 - Trouble Blues
• 1989 - Highway of Blues
• 1989 - John Lee Hooker's 40th Anniversary Album
• 1989 - The Detroit Lion
• 1989 - The Healer
• 1990 - Don't You Remember Me
• 1991 - More Real Folk Blues: The Missing Album
• 1991 - Mr. Lucky
• 1992 - Boom Boom
• 1992 - This Is Hip
• 1992 - Urban Blues
• 1993 - Nothing but the Blues
• 1994 - King of the Boogie
• 1994 - Original Folk Blues... Plus
• 1994 - Dimples (Classic Blues)
• 1995 - Alternative Boogie: Early Studio Recordings, 1948-1952
• 1995 - Chill Out
• 1995 - Whiskey & Wimmen
• 1995 - Blues for Big Town
• 1996 - Moanin' the Blues (Eclipse)
• 1996 - Alone: The First Concert
• 1997 - Don't Look Back
• 1997 - Alone: The Second Concert
• 1998 - Black Man Blues
• 2000 - On Campus
• 2001 - Concert at Newport
• 2001 - The Cream (Re-issue)
• 2001 - The Real Blues: Live in Houston 1979
• 2002 - Live At Newport
• 2003 - Face to Face
• 2003 - Burning Hell (Our World)
• 2003 - Rock With Me
• 2004 - Jack O' Diamonds: The 1949 Recordings

Raccolte e compilation

• 1974 - Mad Man Blues (Chess 1951-1966)
• 1987 - Don't Look Back
• 1989 - The Hook: 20 Years of Hits
• 1991 - Hobo Blues
• 1991 - The Chess Masters
• 1991 - The Complete Chess Folk Blues Sessions (The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues)
• 1991 - The Ultimate Collection 1948-1990
• 1992 - Best of: 1965-1974
• 1992 - The Ultimate Collection (Universal)
• 1992 - The Vee-Jay Years, 1955-1964
• 1993 - Boom Boom (UK only)
• 1993 - Boogie Man
• 1993 - The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954
• 1994 - Blues Collection (Boogie Man)
• 1994 - John Lee Hooker (LaserLight)
• 1994 - The Early Years
• 1994 - Wandering Blues
• 1995 - Red Blooded Blues
• 1995 - The Very Best Of
• 1996 - Blues Legend
• 1996 - Live at Cafe au Go-Go (and Soledad Prison)
• 1997 - His Best Chess Sides
• 1997 - Live in Concert
• 1997 - The Essential Collection
• 1998 - The Best of Friends
• 1998 - The Complete 50's Chess Recordings
• 1999 - Best of John Lee Hooker: 20th Century Masters
• 1999 - This Is Hip [The Best Of]
• 2000 - The Definitive Collection
• 2001 - Born with the Blues
• 2001 - Gold Collection
• 2001 - Legendary Blues Recordings: John Lee Hooker
• 2002 - Blues Before Sunrise
• 2002 - The Complete - Vol. 1 [Body & Soul]
• 2002 - The Complete - Vol. 2 [Body & Soul]
• 2002 - The Complete - Vol. 3 [Body & Soul]
• 2002 - The Complete - Vol. 4 [Body & Soul]
• 2002 - The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues
• 2002 - Timeless Collection
• 2003 - Blues Kingpins
• 2003 - Final Recordings, Vol. 1: Face to Face
• 2003 - The Collection 1948-52
• 2004 - Don't Look Back: Complete Blues
• 2004 - The Complete - Vol. 5 [Body & Soul]
• 2005 - The Complete - Vol. 6 [Body & Soul]
• 2005 - The Early Years - Vol. 1

Filmografia

• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• John Lee Hooker & Furry Lewis DVD (1995)
• John Lee Hooker Rare Performances 1960 - 1984 DVD (2002)
• John Lee Hooker - Bits and pieces about ... DVD + CD (2006)

John Lee Hooker (c. August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie.
Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966). Several of his later albums, including The Healer (1989), Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don't Look Back (1997), were album chart successes in the U.S. and U.K. The Healer (for the song “I’m In The Mood”) and Chill Out (for the album) both earned him Grammy wins  as well as Don’t Look Back, which went on to earn him a double-Grammy win for Best Traditional Blues Recording and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (with Van Morrison).

Early life

Hooker's date of birth is a subject of debate; the years 1912, 1915, 1917, 1920, and 1923 have been suggested. Most sources give 1917, though at times Hooker stated he was born in 1920. Information in the 1920 and 1930 censuses indicates that he was born in 1912. In 2017, a program of events is taking place to celebrate the purported centenary of his birth.
It is believed that he was born in Tutwiler, Mississippi, in Tallahatchie County, although some sources say his birthplace was near Clarksdale, in Coahoma County. He was the youngest of the 11 children of William Hooker (born 1871, died after 1923), a sharecropper and Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (born c. 1880, date of death unknown). In the 1920 federal census, William and Minnie were recorded as being 48 and 39 years old, respectively, which implies that Minnie was born about 1880, not 1875. She was said to have been a "decade or so younger" than her husband (Boogie Man, p. 23), which gives additional credibility to this census record as evidence of Hooker's origins.
The Hooker children were home-schooled. They were permitted to listen only to religious songs; the spirituals sung in church were their earliest exposure to music. In 1921, their parents separated. The next year, their mother married William Moore, a blues singer, who provided John Lee with an introduction to the guitar (and whom he would later credit for his distinctive playing style).
Moore was his first significant blues influence. He was a local blues guitarist who, in Shreveport, Louisiana, learned to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly different from the Delta blues of the time.
Another influence was Tony Hollins, who dated Hooker's sister Alice, helped teach Hooker to play, and gave him his first guitar. For the rest of his life, Hooker regarded Hollins as a formative influence on his style of playing and his career as a musician. Among the songs that Hollins reputedly taught Hooker were versions of "Crawlin' King Snake" and "Catfish Blues".
At the age of 14, Hooker ran away from home, reportedly never seeing his mother or stepfather again. In the mid-1930s, he lived in Memphis, Tennessee, where he performed on Beale Street, at the New Daisy Theatre and occasionally at house parties.
He worked in factories in various cities during World War II, eventually getting a job with the Ford Motor Company in Detroit in 1943. He frequented the blues clubs and bars on Hastings Street, the heart of the black entertainment district, on Detroit's east side. In a city noted for its pianists, guitar players were scarce. Hooker's popularity grew quickly as he performed in Detroit clubs, and, seeking an instrument louder than his acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar.

Earlier career

Hooker's recording career began in 1948, when Modern Records, based in Los Angeles, released a demo he had recorded for Bernie Besman in Detroit. The single, "Boogie Chillen'", became a hit and the best-selling race record of 1949. Despite being illiterate, Hooker was a prolific lyricist. In addition to adapting traditional blues lyrics, he composed original songs. In the 1950s, like many black musicians, Hooker earned little from record sales, and so he often recorded variations of his songs for different studios for an up-front fee. To evade his recording contract, he used various pseudonyms, including John Lee Booker (for Chess Records and Chance Records in 1951–1952), Johnny Lee (for De Luxe Records in 1953–1954), John Lee, John Lee Cooker, Texas Slim, Delta John, Birmingham Sam and his Magic Guitar, Johnny Williams, and the Boogie Man.
His early solo songs were recorded by Bernie Besman. Hooker rarely played with a standard beat, but instead he changed tempo to fit the needs of the song. This often made it difficult to use backing musicians, who were not accustomed to Hooker's musical vagaries. As a result, Besman recorded Hooker playing guitar, singing and stomping on a wooden pallet in time with the music.
For much of this period he recorded and toured with Eddie Kirkland. In Hooker's later sessions for Vee-Jay Records in Chicago, studio musicians accompanied him on most of his recordings, including Eddie Taylor, who could handle his musical idiosyncrasies. "Boom Boom" and "Dimples", two popular songs by Hooker, were originally released by Vee-Jay.

Later career and death

Beginning in 1962, Hooker gained greater exposure when toured Europe in the annual American Folk Blues Festival. His "Dimples" became a successful single on the UK Singles Charts in 1964, eight years after its first US release. Hooker began to perform and record with rock musicians. One of his earliest collaborations was with British blues rock band the Groundhogs. In 1970, he recorded the joint album Hooker 'n Heat, with the American blues and boogie rock group Canned Heat, whose repertoire included adaptations of Hooker songs. It became the first of Hooker's albums to reach the Billboard charts, peaking at number 78 on the Billboard 200. Other collaboration albums soon followed, including Endless Boogie (1971) and Never Get Out of These Blues Alive (1972), which included Steve Miller, Elvin Bishop, Van Morrison, and others.
Hooker appeared in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. He performed "Boom Boom" in the role of a street musician. In 1989, he recorded the album The Healer with Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, and others. The 1990s saw additional collaboration albums: Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don't Look Back (1997) with Morrison, Santana, Los Lobos, and additional guest musicians. His re-recording of "Boom Boom" (the title track for his 1992 album) with guitarist Jimmy Vaughan became Hooker's highest charting single (number 16) in the UK. Come See About Me, a 2004 DVD, includes performances filmed between 1960 and 1994 and interviews with several of the musicians.
Hooker died in his sleep on June 21, 2001, in Los Altos, California. He is interred at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California. He was survived by eight children, 19 grandchildren, and numerous great-grandchildren.

Awards and recognition

Among his many awards, Hooker was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Two of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom", are included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". "Boogie Chillen" is also included in the Recording Industry Association of America's list of the "Songs of the Century".

Grammy Awards

• Best Traditional Blues Recording, 1990, for I'm in the Mood, with Bonnie Raitt
• Best Traditional Blues Album, 1995, for Chill Out
• Best Traditional Blues Recording, 1998, for Don't Look Back
• Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, 1998, Don't Look Back, with Van Morrison
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 2000

 

 

John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom [HQ] - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70VMrH3yBg

 

 

 

John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-fSZRYeBWk

Lyrics

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
Well, my baby, she gone, gone tonight
I ain't seen the girl since night before last
I wanna get drunk, get off of my mind
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
And I sit there
Get stoned
Mellow
Stoned, feelin' good
Real mellow
Dreamin'
After a while, I looked down the bar
At the bartender
I said, "Hey, what do you want?"
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
Well, my baby, she gone, gone tonight
I ain't seen the baby since night before last
I wanna get drunk, get off of my mind
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
Ah-ha, yeah, uh-m
I'm gonna sit there, I was tastin'
Sippin', gettin' rolling
And gettin' a little dizzy
Couldn't hardly see
The bartender
Couldn't hardly sip
On the bar stool
I was rockin' and I was dizzy
And after a while, I looked on the wall
At the old clock
By that time eleven o'clock
Gettin' a little late
And I looked down the bar
At the bartender
I said, "Hey, what do you want?"
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
Well, my baby, she gone, gone tonight
I ain't seen my baby since night before last
I wanna get drunk, get off of my mind
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
Ah-ha, yeah, yes, sir
And I sit there
At the bar
Uh-m, drinkin'
And after a while, I looked down the bar
At the bartender
Then after I looked down the bar, I looked on the wall
At the old clock
By that time, when the last call for alcohol
Was a quarter to two
Then I looked down the bar
At the bartender
I said, "Hey, what do you want?"
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

 

 

 

John Lee Hooker - I'm In The Mood - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw-bvvDfAjs

Lyrics

I'm in the mood baby, I'm in the mood for love
I'm in the mood baby, I'm in the mood for love
I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood, baby, I'm in the mood for love
I said night time is the right time, to be with the one you love
You know when night come baby, God know, you're so far away
I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood baby, I'm in the mood for love
I'm in the mood, in the mood, baby, in the mood for love
I said yes, my mama told me, to leave that girl alone
But my mama didn't know, God know, girl was puttin' down
I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood baby, in the mood for love
I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood, baby, in the mood for love

 

 

 

John Lee Hooker - Hobo blues - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kQlRQRGdfQ

Lyrics

When I first thought to hobo'in, hobo'in
I took a freight train to be my friend, oh Lord
You know I hobo'd, hobo'd, hobo'd, hobo'd
Hobo'd a long, long way from home, oh Lord
You know my mother, she followed me that mornin', me that mornin', that mornin'
She followed me down to the yard, oh Lord
She said, "my son he's gone, he's gone, he's gone, he's gone
Yes, he's gone in a poor some wear, oh Lord"
Yes, I left my dear old mother, dear old mother, dear old mother
I left my honor, need a crime, oh Lord
You know I hobo'd, hobo'd, hobo'd, hobo'd
Hobo'd a long, long way from home, oh Lord

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John Lee Hooker - Dimples - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNY0K82A7Ac

 

 

 

John lee Hooker Boogie Chillen - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBz4ASw6uU

Lyrics

Well, my mama 'low me just to stay out all night long
Oh, Lord
Well, my mama 'low me just to stay out all night long
I didn't care she 'low, I would boogie anyhow
When I first came to town, people, I was walkin' down Hastings Street
Everybody was talkin' about the Henry Swing Club
I decided I drop in there that night
When I got there, I say, "Yes, people"
They was really havin' a ball
Yes, I know
Boogie Chillen'
One night I was layin' down
I heard mama and papa talkin'
I heard papa tell mama let that boy boogie-woogie
It's in him and it got to come out
And I felt so good
Went on boogin' just the same