Minnie The Moocher lyrics

Song information

Artist: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Album: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Lyrics

Folks, now here's the story 'bout minnie the moocher
She was a red-hot hootchie-cootcher
She was the roughest, toughest frail
But minnie had a heart as big as a whale

[Call and response scat chorus differs every time. the following is
Simplified:]
Hi-de-hi-de-hi-di-hi!
Ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-ho!
He-de-he-de-he-de-he!
Ho-de-ho-de-ho!

Now, she messed around with a bloke named smoky
She loved him though he was cokie
He took her down to chinatown
He showed her how to kick the gong around

Now, she had a dream about the king of sweden
He gave her things that she was needin'
Now he built her a home out of gold and steel
A diamond car with a platinum wheel

Now, he gave her his townhouse and his racing horses
Each meal she ate was a dozen courses;
She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes
And she sat around and counted them all a billion times

Poor min, poor min, poor min

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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