The Jubalaires - Brother Bill

 

 

Man: Mnn Mable Lee, what are you doing back here?

Mable Lee: Well I have an old favorite that I'd like to see.

Man: You like to see, what is that?

Mable Lee: Brother Bill with The Jubalaires.

Man: Ohhh Brother Bill with The Jubalaires, ha ha! No quicker said than done

 

Me and brother Bill went hunting in the woods in the eastern Maine

The reason why we went up there we thought we could catch some game.

Me and brother Bill went hunting way in the middle of the night

We shot at somethin' like a grizzly bear and the doggone thing turned white

 

  Ohh we dropped that gun and away I run

  Brother Bill said boy what's the matter with you?

  Well had he known like me he'd've run some too

  I run so fast to say they couldn't catch me all-day

  The way I run across that field they couldn't catch me with a automobile.

 

Me and brother Bill went hunting in the woods in the eastern Maine

The reason why we went up there we thought we could catch some game.

Me and brother Bill went hunting way in the middle of the night

We shot at somethin' like a grizzly bear and the doggone thing turned white.

 

Brother Billy got so excited he really took a shot at me

That bullet 'doozeled' past my ears and  'zizzled' through a tree

I run so fast I was exhausted, my feet was banging the ground.

I said look here big feets do your stuff because I'm Alabama bound.

      This is what hip hop was like back in the 40s. "They've restored an old Louis Armstrong number, Me and Brother Bill, about an unlikely hunting trip to Maine: shooting a grizzly bear which may or may not have been a grizzly bear. Louis later performed the song in a duet with Bing Crosby. It's all a bit weird - the bear turns white and off they run (talking about the KKK maybe?) - but those costumes with the deerstalkers are fabulous, and you can see a line from this straight through to doo-wop and beat-boxing".