Johnson Girl
Traditional, and nothing to do with the Johnson Girls (American female shanty crew)! According to sleeve notes of Tomorrow's Tide by Salt of the Earth (Barrie and Ingrid Temple and Joyce and Danny McLeod) “a fine song originally recorded on the menhaden fishing boat The Boys of Maryport, Florida in July 1940 by Robert Cook and Robert Cornwall…. Pulling or 'hardening up' the nets, is done in silence and the verses sung while the fishermen gather a new grip on the net.†Sometimes sung with a 2 bar rest between each line.
Johnson girls
Johnson girls is mighty fine girls
Walk around, honey, walk around
Johnson girls is mighty fine girls
Walk around, honey, walk around.
Walk around, honey, walk around
Johnson girls is mighty fine girls
Walk around, honey, walk around.
They’re neat in the waist and got mighty fine legs
Neat in the waist and got mighty fine legs.
Neat in the waist and got mighty fine legs.
Great big legs and teeny-eensy feet
Great big legs and teeny-eensy feet.
Great big legs and teeny-eensy feet.
Beef steak, beef steak, make a little gravy
Your thing, my thing, make a little baby.
Your thing, my thing, make a little baby.
They got somethin’ over yonder they call jewmaka jam
Hot as cayenne but good, God Damn.
Hot as cayenne but good, God Damn.
Them Johnson girls is mighty fine girls
Them Johnson girls is mighty fine girls.
Them Johnson girls is mighty fine girls.
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