Cab Calloway, Recorded December 18, 1933.
Minnie the Moocher
Folks, now here’s the story ’bout Minnie the Moocher,
She was a red-hot hootchie-cootcher,
She was the roughest, toughest frail,
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
Hi-de-hi-de-hi-di-hi!
Ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-ho!
He-de-he-de-he-de-he!
Ho-de-ho-de-ho!
She messed around with a bloke named Smoky,
She loved him though he was cokie,
He took her down to Chinatown,
And he showed her how to kick the gong around.
She had a dream about the king of Sweden,
He gave her things that she was needin’,
He gave her a home built of gold and steel,
A diamond car with a platinum wheel.
He gave her his townhouse and his racing horses,
Each meal she ate was a dozen courses;
She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes,
She sat around and counted them all a million times.
Poor Min, poor Min, poor Min.
:D/