Beedle Um Bum

Lyrics: Traditional (note 1)
Music: Traditional

Sung by Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions in 1964

Down in Memphis Tennessee, there lives a girl named Cindy
With a meat shop on her block she's always got the gimme's
Now there's a meal called Southern eel that you can't resist from trying
Every time you pass the door you can hear Miss Cindy crying

Oh beedle um bum
Come and see me if you ain't had none
She make a dumb man speak, a lame man run
You sure miss plenty if you ain't had none
What a beedle um bum
What a beedle um bum
She got the best beedle bum down in Tennessee

Down in Memphis Tennessee, there lives a girl named Cindy
With a meat shop on her block she's always got the gimme's
Now there's a meal called Southern eel that you can't resist from trying
Every time you pass the door you can hear Miss Cindy crying

Oh beedle um bum
Come and see me if you ain't had none
She make a dumb man speak, a lame man run
You sure miss plenty if you ain't had none
What a beedle um bum
What a beedle um bum
She got the best beedle bum down in Tennessee

Notes
(1) on the Mother McCree CD, the song is credited to "Booker Y Bradshaw" - and the title is registered under that name with BMI. But I haven't found any other references to him as the author, and Matt Schofield's research shows that it is more normally credited either as "Traditional" or to "Thomas Dorsey" (Georgia Tom).

Grateful Dead and Related Recordings
	Date	Album
	Jul 1964	Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions

Futher Information
For more information on recordings see Matt Schofield's Grateful Dead Family Discography