HARD BOILED MAMA
(Conway)


Original Dixie Rag Pickers (vocal: Arthur Fields) - 1927
Cotton Pickers Orch. - 1927





She's a hard boiled mama with no sympathy
The coldest gal in New Orleans
She never has a sentimental feeling
Though she's only in her flaming teens

Likes a good time, plenty of action
Lovers to her are no affliction
But she'll make 'em spend and dig down in their teams
Way beyond their means

She should be an eskimo 
And show 'em what frigid means
Way up North in the land of snow
And Poles in Arctic scenes

She'd make an iceberg blush for shame
And that is how it happened she has the name
Of hard boiled mama with no sympathy
The coldest gal in New Orleans


***Original Dixie Rag Pickers and Cotton Pickers Orchestra 
were both pseudonyms of the prolific 1920's jazz group, The California Ramblers. 






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2012)