song "Yellow coat" (Jay Hawkins)

• BMI work number: 1702686
• Songwriter/Composer: Jay Hawkins (CAE/IPI #40687777)
• Publishers: Lark Music Inc (CAE/IPI #17315312)

Versions

Screamin' Jay Hawkins () Musicians: Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vocals, piano)
1958 Screamin' Jay Hawkins	LP I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
1982 Screamin' Jay Hawkins	LP FRENZY

Lyrics

Screamin' Jay Hawkins () studio

 

A forty gallon hat

And some polka-dot shoes.

Tomato pickin' onion juice

To drive away my blues.

A bright red leather suit,

A trip in a motorboat,

And the strike I caused on the waterfront

When I fell outta my yellow coat.

 

Hey now, stick with it.

Aw baby don't quit it.

You know you're bound to git it.

Yes sir, made outta goat skin, foreskin

And layin' out in milk and gin.

 

The people quit the scene

Like the devil was loose.

The clouds turned green

And let down lemon juice.

What walks on two feet

And looks like a goat?

That crazy Screamin' Jay

In a bright yellow coat.

 

Hey now, stick with it.

Baby, baby don'tcha quit it.

Aw you're bound to git it.

Yes sir, made outta goat skin, foreskin

And layin' out in milk and gin.

 

I took a plane out midwest

To see my Uncle Joe.

We ran into some real bad weather,

Ice, rain and snow.

Fifty million bulldogs

Twenty mountain goats,

All gathered 'round at sundown

To see my yellow coat.

 

Hey now, stick with it.

No, no, no, no don'tcha dare quit it.

Hey, you're bound to git it.

Made outta goat skin, foreskin

And layin' out in milk and gin.

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