One Mint Julep - The Clovers

One Mint Julep - The Clovers

2:30
single, 1952
Written by Rudy Toombs

This is doo-wop, but a more toned-down, cool jazzy doo-wop.  It's a story song about a man who gets drunk off mint juleps (or, as the narrator claims, just one julep) and ends up in a shotgun wedding with a lady he just met, and later wonders that he has six children.  According to Wikipedia, some of the humor in this song comes in part from the idea of a young black man getting drunk on mint juleps, traditionally thought of as an aristocratic southern white woman's drink.  Maybe, but it's also playing on the "men be hating marriage" comedy trope.