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Managua, Nicaragua is a beautiful town
You buy a hacienda for a few pesos down
You give it to the lady you are tryin' to win
But her papa doesn't let you come in

Bunch of Thyme ()
Author: traditional

Come all you maidens young and fair
All you who are blooming in your prime
always beware and keep your garden fair
And let no man steal away your thyme

Chorus
Thyme it is a precious thing
Thyme brings all things to your mind
Thyme with all its labors, along with all its joys
And its thyme brings all things to an end

Once I had a bunch of thyme
I thought it never would decay
and then a lusty sailor had chanced to pass my way
He stole my bunch of thyme away

The sailor gave to me a rose
I thought it never would decay
He gave it to me to keep me reminded
Of when he stole my thyme away

So come all you maidens young and fair
All you that flourish in your prime
always be minded to keep your garden fair
And let no man steal your bunch of thyme

Utt Da Zay (The Tailor's Song)
(Ram, Mills)

Transcribed from vocals by Cab Calloway, recorded July 17, 1939,
From Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, 1939-1940, Chronological Classics 595.


My mother used to sing to me,
A haunting little melody;
Nobody knows where it came from,
Or where it was composed.

[Scatting]

"Utt da zay," sings the tailor,
As he fashions pretty clothes;
"Utt da zay," sings the tailor,
As he sews, sews, sews.
He's as busy as a bee,
Making lovely finery,
Things my baby loves to wear
When I take her to the fair.
"Utt da zay," sings the tailor; all it means is "That's the way."
When I buy the things he made her, says the tailor, "Utt da zay."

[Scatting]
Oh, do you dig, dig, dig?
Do you chop, chop, chop?
Are you hep to this jive that I'm laying to you?
[Scatting]

I took me a river boat from Memphis and I rode to New Orleans. Met up with a little cayenne mamma. She said she'd like to be
my Delta queen,
She said there's one thing I forgot to tell you,
Yeah there's one thing you should know. She said my mamma
was a voodoo princess and my heart beats black like coal,
Well she made up some black magic gumbo and some voodoo etoufe'
She said once you taste my cookin boy It's gonna steal your heart away, She said there's one more thing I forgot to tell you
Yeah there's one thing that you should know,
She said once you taste my baby's cookin', It's gonna turn your heart black like coal.
Now she took me on a little walk down the bayou, On a lovers rendevous. She said take my hand little cajun man gonna do
the thing lovers do,
now there's one thing I forgot to tell you, yeah there's one thing you should know, she said ohh-oooh-oooh-
oh ohhh mmmm-mmmm-mm-mm-mmmm, Now this ain't hardly no story, Yeah it's barely even worth the tell,
But you ramble around in a delta town, You're sure to lose yourself,
And there's one thing I forgot to tell you, yeah there's one thing I forgot to tell you.
I said now don't you go messin' with no voodoo mamma, She take you straight to hell.