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Old 01-28-2007, 09:48 PM Default Re: Pictionary  
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And Jimbo takes the lead again!

The song, performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan, is about a woman who gets beaten up by her drunk husband one too many times, so she finally slugs him in the head with a rolling pin, killing him. She and the (dead) husband trade off lyrics about how his family is going to kill her in revenge, and how she doesn't mind going to the electric chair.

This is all sung in fakey-Jamaicy accents, background music a peppy, danceable beat and an incongruously cheerful trumpet.

Things have really changed a lot in 50 years.

For the curious, here's a link to part of the song.


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