Dialog 2 - Live At Walled Lake Casino, Detroit, MI/1963

Oh yeah (oh yeah)
Oh yeah (oh yeah)
Oh yeah (oh yeah)
Yeah

My man
My man called up on the telephone long distance to Chicago
To borrow fifteen dollars from his friend
And his friend answered the phone
And the operator said, "Here's your party, mister"
And he said, "Say babe, loan me fifteen dollars"

And his partner said, "What'd you say?"
Said, "Loan me fifteen dollars"
He said, "What you tag again?"
He said, "Loan me fifteen dollars"

He said, "My man look at, I'm in a
There's somethin' wrong, I can't hear you"
And the operator broke in, she said:
"Well mister, you line is very clear since I'm able to hear him"
So the other fella said, "Well you loan it to him then"

They can never tell
What's up, remind me
When I was down south, yeah, yeah (ah, ha, ha)
I come back quick

My brother wrote me a letter from home
And he said, "Ay, I think I got that letter, 'cause I usually carry it with me
I know I usually always-
Oh heck, it must be in my other suit
Let me see
Oh, this is my other suit"

I'm sayin' somewhere here
Yeah, yeah
That must be in my wallet 'cause I know I keep it with me
I always have to get it, I've got it
Yeah, I can't even get that, yeah, yeah, here it is

'Cause I know, yeah, that's what it was
Says um, says uh
Yeah, yeah here it is
You have to use the material, unless you have
You know, when you, yeah
When you ad lib, and you know
Yeah, well here's the letter

Yeah, says uh "Dear, dear"
Look how he spell my name
C-H-U-M-P
That ain't the way to spell my name
Says, "We have been havin' a little hardship downhill lately"
I know that's the truth

Say, "The bathroom caught on a fire
But we were lucky that the flames did not reach the house"
Oh yeah, that's right
That, they have the segregated deal down there, yeah
Yeah
Yeah

Yeah, said, "Your sister slipped on a banana peel and she
She sued the police department"
Say, "They accidental curb just says
There she was steppin' into a patrol wagon?"
But your brother have a 1963 Cadillac
And it only cost him twenty years

Say your, "Oh by the way, your mother-in-law died"
"Oh how my heart did yearn
I know she's up in heaven
'Cause she too darn tough to burn"

The child next, if little couple next door have a bouncin' baby boy
The child was born with callouses on his hands
He was tryin' to hold on until after the wedding

There's oh yes
I would have sent you the fifteen dollars you asked me for
But I seen all the letter, before I thought about it
Oh, by the way
Uncle Benjamin married a nineteen year old girl
Three weeks later, he died
Say, it took the undertaker three days to get the smile off his face
Oh, mercy