Howlin' Wolf - Coon On The Moon lyrics

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Coon On The Moon

Howlin' Wolf

(Eddie Shaw) Regent Music Corp BMI

The Back Door Wolf Album

Recorded Chess Studios - August 14th & 17th 1973

Originally Released on Chess LP 50045

Transcriber; Awcantor@aol.com

When I all grown out, a little boy

Stayed way down south

Had to wear second-handed clothes

Live out back-a the big house

Things have changed

Yes, we on the moon, now

They wouldn't let us play together

Now, we could go to no city school, now

We used to pick the cotton

Til we got too old

Tell me, who was the first man

Ta go to the North Pole?

Things have changed

Yes, we on the moon, now

We used to wear boots, ev'ry day

Now we wearin' bran' new shoes

(Harmonica & instrumental)

We plowed the mule

That lived out back-a the hut

Tell me who was the first man

Made butter out of a peanut?

Things have changed

Ooh, we on the moon, now

They used to wouldn't let us play together

Now, we can go to most any school, now

You know they call us, 'coon'

Say we didn't have no sense

You gon' wake up one mornin'

An the ol' 'coon' will be your president

Things have changed

Ooh, we on the moon, now

You gon' wake up one mornin'

An' it'll be a "coon" a-settin' on the moon.

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