- BMI work number: 241573
- Songwriter/Composer: Jalacy J. Hawkins (BMI #13616808)
- Publishers: Unichappell Music Inc. (BMI #55032802)
Dave Rosencran of KCMU in Seattle obtained the details from Screamin' Jay himself:
- "I never before had been constipated in my life and it didn't dawn on me until I was five hours on the stool in the hospital that nothin' was gonna happen. I had doctors give me enemas and still nothin' happened. I had tears in my eyes, and I noticed this beautiful roll of toilet paper and I took out a pencil and, at the bottom of the toilet paper, I started writin' the song backwards, from the bottom up. The more I rolled out the toilet paper, the more I got into the song. I wrote exactly as I felt, each movement, each sound, each pain..."
Cover versions
1969 Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Production: Milan Melvin
Recording: 23-24 June 1969 North Hollywood, Club Amigo
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| 1969 Screamin' Jay Hawkins |
LP WHAT THAT IS! |
Mercury
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| 1988 Screamin' Jay Hawkins |
2LP FEAST OF THE MAU
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| 1990 Screamin' Jay Hawkins |
2CD SPELLBOUND! 1955-1974 |
DE: Bear Family CD15530
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1983 Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Production: Larry Martin
Recording: April - May 1983 Paris, Annagramme Studio
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| 1983 Screamin' Jay Hawkins |
LP REAL LIFE |
FR: Zeta
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Lyrics
- 1969 Screamin' Jay Hawkins
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- Ladies and gentlemen, most people record songs about love, heartbreak, loneliness, being broke... Nobody's actually went out and recorded a song about real pain. The band and I have just returned from the General Hospital where we caught a man in the right position. We name this song: "Constipation blues".
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- UMM-UMMMH, aeoh
- UMM-UOOMH
- OOH!
- OH!
- UH UH
- Aaah
- UOH, aah
- Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
- I don't believe I can take much more
- Let it go
- Aah
- Got a pain down inside
- Won't be denied
- Yeah, every time I try
- I can't be satisfied
- Let it go!
- WOAH, UMMH
- Let it, let it go!
- OH!
- WAAAAOOOH!
- This pain down inside
- Just won't let me be satisfied
- Let it go!
- SPLASH!!! SPSHHH....
- Feel, ah, I feel alright
- Yeah, I feel alright
- SPLASH!!! Shpsh...
- Yeah
- I feel alright
- SPLASH!
- Flush
- Phew
- Phew
- Phew...
- Feel alright
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- 1983 Screamin' Jay Hawkins
- UMM-MMMMH OUUH
- BOOAAH UMM-UOOMH
- Let go UM OOH OH!
- WOAOH!
- Let it go! Let it go! Let it go, let it go!
- I don't think I can take much more
- Let it go
- AH! WHOA
- OI got a pain down inside
- It won't be denied
- Every time I try
- I can't be satisfied
- Let it go! PFFRR oh oh
- Let it, let it go! MMMH
- AAH OH!
- This pain it ain't no thrill
- It keep messin' with my will
- Let it go! OH - PFFRT
- [piano solo]
- PFFFR FFRRRT OUH!
- Oh my!
- Maybe I'm gonna be all right
- OUH O O OH
- Yes! I think I gonna be all right
- UM OH OH UMMM
- WHOA UMH
- AH!
- A HUH HUH HA
- PLOP PLOP
- WHOA BOAH!
- AH!
- OUUUH AAH HUMMH
- PFRRT GROAN
- WOOOH!
- WHOAAAAAAAAA-AAAAH
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