RIP Nellie Lutcher

Tara Brady madame.brady at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 19:57:19 CDT 2007


I have never heard this but I like it already.

On 12/06/07, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Since it's a fairly slow day I can't resist posting the lyrics to Nellie
> Letcher's best
> song. A favorite of mine. Up there with the coffee song
>
> P
>
>
> Hurry on down to my house, honey,
> Aint nobody home but me.
> Hurry on down to my house, baby.
> Oh, Im blue as I can be.
> I love you. you love me.
> A-hurry through the alley
> So the neighbors dont see.
> Hurry on down to my house, honey,
> Aint nobody home but me. oooh.
>
> Hurry on down to my house, baby,
> Aint nobody home but me.
> Hurry on down to my house, baby.
> Im blue as I can be.
>
> Oh, blue when the clock a-went
> Tick-tock-tick.
> Ooh, cmon, honey, quick, quick, quick.
> Hurry on down to my house, baby,
> Aint nobody home but me.
>
> Say, hurry, hurry, a-nobodys home.
> Hurry on down, baby,
> Im blue as I can be.
> Oh, please come down
> Just as soon as you can.
> If you dont come down,
> I got to call sam!
> You know the man is crazy about me.
> Aint nobody home but me . . . ow!
>
> Well, whats goin on with the three of yous? cmon, cmon, make it snappy.
> cmon, cmon, work out, work out! go, babe, get down, get down! oh, lord!
> nobodys home!
>
> Say, hurry on down to my house, baby,
> Aint nobody home.
> Haul it down, drag it down,
> Any way to get it down.
> Im blue as I can be.
> Ashes-to-ashes. dust-to-dust.
> Cmon, honey, you must, you must!
> Hurry on down to my house, baby,
> Aint nobody home but me.
>
> Hurry, hurry. a-nobodys home.
> Haul it down and drag it down.
> You know I cant stand to be alone.
> Operator, get me hillside, 409.
> A-dont stop ringin
> til you get that babys line!
> Hes gonna haul it down!
> Aint nobody home but, you believe it,
> Theres nobody home but me! wo!
>
>
> On Jun 11, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>
> Saw this in the morning Washington Post
>
> Used to listen to her on the radio in the late 40s
>
> Don't know if it was a local broadcast or national
>
> Think she might have been singing in an LA club
>
> "hurry on down to my house baby
> ain't nobody home but me . .. "
>
>
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/Nellie.html
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