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"squeeze my lemon and let the juice run down my leg" lyric

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Jerry Cunningham

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Oct 14, 2005, 10:55:14 PM10/14/05
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All,

Where did this lyric first appear?

Thanks!

JC

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Blue Stew

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Oct 15, 2005, 1:04:58 PM10/15/05
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Robert Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues" Recorded in Dallas, Texas
June 20 1937.

mike
"But I'm goin' back to Friar's Point, if I be rockin' to my head"-R. Johnson

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Joel Fritz

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Oct 15, 2005, 3:02:50 PM10/15/05
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Maybe the full line. In the 30s there were a bunch of songs with titles
like "Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon" or references to lemon manipulation.
<g> SBWI, Charlie Pickett, Bo Carter, Bumble Bee Slim....

Bo Carter's lemon song is from 1935. He talked about squeezing and
rolling. In cooking rolling a lemon is something you do to make
squeezing the lemon easier and yield more juice. Rachael Ray
demonstrates it all the time. I'm guessing that "squeeze my/your lemon"
was a slang phrase that was popular at the time.

"It makes no difference, baby, what your daddy don't allow. I'm gonna
squeeze your lemon. I mean anyhow."--Charlie Pickett, "Let Me Squeeze
Your Lemon."

Blue Stew wrote:
> Robert Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues" Recorded in Dallas, Texas
> June 20 1937.
>
> mike
> "But I'm goin' back to Friar's Point, if I be rockin' to my head"-R.
> Johnson
>
> .
> Jerry Cunningham wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Where did this lyric first appear?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> JC
>>

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edsel

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Oct 16, 2005, 7:07:46 PM10/16/05
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Led Zeppelin - "The Lemon Song"


Just Kiddin'!

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edward

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Oct 16, 2005, 8:20:20 PM10/16/05
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Doesn't match box blues use the line?
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