2:47
single, 1949
Written by Jim Bulliet & Rudy Green
Rudy Greene also recorded as Green, with no N. This is an early R&B novelty song in the showboating style that Fats Waller was so terrific at (Greene even slips in a falsetto at the end, like Fats did). The prominent instruments here are sax and horn, though, not piano. The song is about a buzzard who spies a delightful treat and comes in to feast, only to come face to face with a guy so hungry he's ready to eat the buzzard itself: "Hi, hi, why you big fat bird / Hi, hi, hi Mister Buzzard / There's a meat shortage, or haven't you heard?" I'm intrigued that a song of this era could include the lines "Die, die, die said the buzzard, die right now."
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