song "Alligator wine" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Adam Lane made an animation film entitled Alligator wine in 1993. In the late 1990s there was also a band called Alligator Wine. The Grateful Dead song "Mister Charlie" refers to "alligator wine", too.

Cover versions

• 1958 Screamin' Jay Hawkins

| 1958 Screamin' Jay Hawkins || LP I PUT A SPELL ON YOU ||

| 1982 Screamin' Jay Hawkins || LP FRENZY ||

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• ca. 1969 In-Sex

ca. 1969 In-Sex

Hammer 3002

1996 various artists

CD SIXTIES REBELLION VOL. 15 (PSYCHEDELIA NO. 2: THE APPLE-GLASS SYNDROME)

Way Back MMCD67002

• 1983 Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Production: Larry Martin.

Recording: April - May 1983 Paris, Annagramme Studio.

1983 Screamin' Jay Hawkins

LP REAL LIFE

FR: Zeta

• 1988 Patti Palladin and Johnny Thunders

1988 Patti Palladin and Johnny Thunders

CD COPY CATS

Jungle Records FREUD20

19?? various artists

3CD FLESHEATERS (THE RETURN OF THE UNDEAD)

• 1989 Mad Daddys

1989 Mad Daddys

7" single Alligator wine / Take me back to Woodstock

Sub Pop SP 35

• 1995 Louis Tillet and Charlie Owen

1995 Louis Tillet and Charlie Owen

CD MIDNIGHT RAIN

Normal Records / Return To Sender RTS18

Lyrics

1958 Screamin' Jay Hawkins AAH! AAAH!! HA HA HA! Take the blood out of an alligator, yeah Take the left eye of a fish, yeah Take the skin off of a frog, yeah Yeah, and mix it up in a dish Add a cup of grease swamp water And then countin' one to nine Spit over your left shoulder And you got alligator wine Alligator wine - YEHE HUH UH Your porcupine Is gonna make you mine, oh yeah Yeah, is gonna make you mine It'll make your head bald, babe I say it make your toes freeze It'll turn your blood into steam - ASHHH! It'll make you cough and sneeze You gotta scream UHH like an eagle You gonna roar like a mountain lion When you get finished drinking Good old, yeah, alligator wine Alligator wine Your porcupine Is gonna make you mine AH HUH HUH Meet at the stroke of midnight By the swamp down in the wood I'm gonna make you love me babe Like you never thought you could You gonna break my magic potion And your blood [...] eye is gonna shine You gonna be scared forever Too much alligator wine Alligator wine WHOAA - alligator wine Yeah yeh, is gonna make you mine HUH HUH AAH Alligator, alligator wine HUH AAH

1983 Screamin' Jay Hawkins . . Take the blood out of an alligator Take the left eyeball out of a fish, UH Take the skin off from a frog, UUH And mix it up in a dish Grab a bowl with green swamp funky water Then count from one to nine Spit over your left shoulder And you got alligator wine Alligator wine Your porcupine - WHOA Is gonna make you, yeah I said, gonna make you, yeah I say, gonna make you mine It'll make your head bald, baby It'll make your toes freeze It'll turn your blood into steam It'll make you cough and sneeze You gotta scream OOH like an eagle You gonna roar like a mountain lion When you get finished drinking Good old alligator wine Alligator wine UH WHOO Your porcupine Is gonna make you I say, is gonna make you mine Meet at the stroke of midnight By the swamp down in the wood I'm gonna make you love me babe Like you never thought you could You gonna break my magic potion And your bloodshot eyes will shine You'll be a slave forever Too much alligator wine Alligator wine OOOOH HOO I say gonna make you mine Little alligator Tall alligator Brown alligators Square alligators Fat alligators Cross-eyed alligators Funky alligators Crocodiles, too Hippopotamus knee-caps Dwarf nose Baboon lips Around your [...] ears Alligator wine