Dialog 2 - Live At Walled Lake Casino, Detroit, MI/1963

Oh yeah (oh yeah)

Oh yeah (oh yeah)

Oh yeah (oh yeah)

Yeah

My man

My man called up on the telephone long distance to Chicago

To borrow fifteen dollars from his friend

And his friend answered the phone

And the operator said, "Here's your party, mister"

And he said, "Say babe, loan me fifteen dollars"

And his partner said, "What'd you say?"

Said, "Loan me fifteen dollars"

He said, "What you tag again?"

He said, "Loan me fifteen dollars"

He said, "My man look at, I'm in a

There's somethin' wrong, I can't hear you"

And the operator broke in, she said:

"Well mister, you line is very clear since I'm able to hear him"

So the other fella said, "Well you loan it to him then"

They can never tell

What's up, remind me

When I was down south, yeah, yeah (ah, ha, ha)

I come back quick

My brother wrote me a letter from home

And he said, "Ay, I think I got that letter, 'cause I usually carry it with me

I know I usually always-

Oh heck, it must be in my other suit

Let me see

Oh, this is my other suit"

I'm sayin' somewhere here

Yeah, yeah

That must be in my wallet 'cause I know I keep it with me

I always have to get it, I've got it

Yeah, I can't even get that, yeah, yeah, here it is

'Cause I know, yeah, that's what it was

Says um, says uh

Yeah, yeah here it is

You have to use the material, unless you have

You know, when you, yeah

When you ad lib, and you know

Yeah, well here's the letter

Yeah, says uh "Dear, dear"

Look how he spell my name

C-H-U-M-P

That ain't the way to spell my name

Says, "We have been havin' a little hardship downhill lately"

I know that's the truth

Say, "The bathroom caught on a fire

But we were lucky that the flames did not reach the house"

Oh yeah, that's right

That, they have the segregated deal down there, yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah, said, "Your sister slipped on a banana peel and she

She sued the police department"

Say, "They accidental curb just says

There she was steppin' into a patrol wagon?"

But your brother have a 1963 Cadillac

And it only cost him twenty years

Say your, "Oh by the way, your mother-in-law died"

"Oh how my heart did yearn

I know she's up in heaven

'Cause she too darn tough to burn"

The child next, if little couple next door have a bouncin' baby boy

The child was born with callouses on his hands

He was tryin' to hold on until after the wedding

There's oh yes

I would have sent you the fifteen dollars you asked me for

But I seen all the letter, before I thought about it

Oh, by the way

Uncle Benjamin married a nineteen year old girl

Three weeks later, he died

Say, it took the undertaker three days to get the smile off his face

Oh, mercy