Mannish Boy

About Mannish Boy

"Mannish Boy" (or "Manish Boy" as it was first labeled) is a blues standard by Muddy Waters. First recorded in 1955, the song is both an arrangement of and an "answer song" to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man", which was in turn inspired by Waters' and Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man". "Mannish Boy" features a repeating stop-time figure on one chord throughout the song and is credited to Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley. Although the song contains sexual boasting, its repetition of "I'm a man, I spell M, A child, N" was understood as political. Waters had recently left the South for Chicago. "Growing up in the South, African-Americans [would] never be referred to as a man – but as 'boy'. In this context, the song [is] an assertion of black manhood." more »

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Oh yeah, yeah
Oh yes
Everything gonna be alright 

Oh yeah, yeah
Now when I was a young boy
At the age of five
My mother said I'll be
The greatest man alive 

And now I'm a man
I'm over twenty-one
You better believe me, baby
And I'll say, we can have lots of fun 

I'm a man
Huh huh huh huh huh
A man
Oh yeah 

Oh yeah (oh yeah)
Oh yeah 

The line I shoot
Will never miss
And when I make love to you baby
You just can't resist 

Ooh, ain't that man
Spelled "M"
"A" child
"N" 

No "be	"
"O" child
"why"
That spell mannish boy 

I'm a man
A man
I'm a man 
I'm a man 

I sittin' on the outside
Just me and my mate
I made the move
Come up two hours late 

Ain't that a man
No "be	"
"O" child
"why"
That spell mannish boy 

I'm a man
I'm a man
I'm a full grown man, baby 

Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah 

All you pretty women
Stand in line
I make love with you baby
In an hour's time 

I'm a man
I'm a man
Oh yeah (oh yeah)
Oh yeah (oh yeah)

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues". He was a major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, and was ranked No. 17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. more »

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