2:12
single, 1957
Written by Jerry McCain
An energetic, funny boogie blues, in which the narrator complains about his mooching neighbor. It's basically a running inventory of everything they've borrowed, which turns out to be whatever isn't nailed down. "They want to borrow the broom, they want to borrow the mop / They want to know the time so they borrow the clock / They want to borrow some lard and a piece of meat / They want to borrow some sugar to make the coffee sweet." McCain delivers it all with a grin and a stomp, the gripe coming off as good-natured, and it lands exactly the way a song like this should.
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