Mannish Boy

Album: Real Folk Blues (1955)
Charted: 51
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  • Ooooooh, yeah, ooh, yeah

    Everythin', everythin', everythin's gonna be alright this mornin'
    Ooh yeah, whoaw
    Now when I was a young boy, at the age of five
    My mother said I was, gonna be the greatest man alive
    But now I'm a man, way past 21
    Want you to believe me baby
    I had lot's of fun
    I'm a man
    I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn
    That represents man
    No be, O child, Y1
    That mean mannish boy
    I'm a man
    I'm a full grown man
    I'm a man
    I'm a natural born lovers man
    I'm a man
    I'm a rollin' stone
    I'm a man
    I'm a hoochie coochie man

    Sittin' on the outside, just me and my mate
    You know I'm made to move you honey
    Come up two hours late
    Wasn't that a man
    I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn
    That represents man
    No be, O child, Y1
    That mean mannish boy
    I'm a man
    I'm a full grown man
    Man
    I'm a natural born lovers man
    Man
    I'm a rolllin' stone
    Man-child
    I'm a hoochie coochie man

    The line I shoot will never miss
    When I make love to a woman
    She can't resist
    I think I go down
    To old Kansas Stew
    I'm gonna bring back my second cousin
    That little John the Conqueror root
    All you little girls
    Sittin'out at that line
    I can make love to you woman
    In five minutes time
    Ain't that a man
    I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn
    That represents man
    No be, O child, Y1
    That mean mannish boy
    Man
    I'm a full grown man
    Man
    I'm a natural born lovers man
    Man
    I'm a rollin' stone
    I'm a man-child
    I'm a hoochie coochie man
    Well, well, well, well
    Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry
    Don't hurt me, don't hurt me child
    Don't hurt me, don't hurt, don't hurt me child
    Well, well, well, well

    Yeah Writer/s: Ellas Mcdaniel, Mckinley Morganfield, Melvin London
    Publisher: Audiam, Inc., BMG Rights Management, Mute Song Limited, Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Oldpink from New Castle, InSometimes when Muddy performed this in front of an audience, he would shake up a full beer bottle, stick it in the front of his pants, then open it up during the part when he bellows "Im a man!"
    Foam sprayed all over the place, and it was a naughty, but very funny bit of stage theater.
    Definitely the archetype for the rockers who followed long after he did, and those rockers to this day more often than not idolize him.
  • Matthew from Columbia, MoA remake of this song was used in the first episode of the Sopranos, (when Christopher 'whacks' a guy in the meat store.) Personally, I think they should have used the original, but that's just me.
  • Pytlak from Bakersfield, CaThis song is also performed by Muddy Waters in The Band's concert film, The Last Waltz.
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