January 28: Bo Carter

In another one of my Jeo-party Prep Session Rabbit Holes, I found myself watching a delightful youtube video of a song called "Please Warm My Weiner" by Bo Carter. Yes, that's a real song, and yes, he referring to his penis. How did I get here? More research about words that also mean "the penis", of course! I looked up "weiner" in the OED, and found three definitions. 

1. A small, thin sausage.
2. The penis.
3. One ridiculed as weak, socially inept, or unfashionable.

And the first citation in the OED of "weiner" being used in print to mean "the penis": 1935 B. Carter Please Warm my Weiner (song). So of course the next thing I do is google the song. And it is for real an actual song, and I am so thankful I found it because it is just delightful. I also was delighted to share the song with my Jeo-Party crew last night. 

Bo Carter was an early American blues musician, born in Mississippi on June 30, 1893, died in Tennessee on September 21, 1964. He was known for his bawdy songs, and "had an unequaled capacity for creating sexual metaphors in his songs, specializing in such ribald imagery" as "Let Me Roll Your Lemon", "Banana in Your Fruit Basket", "Pin in Your Cushion", "Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me", "Please Warm My Wiener" and "My Pencil Won't Write No More".

Side note: just got myself down another rabbit hole of cool, new words via the OED from that description of Bo Carter. 

Ribald: "referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way" or "one who uses offensive, irreverent, or scurrilous language" which took me to 

Scurrilous: "characterized by coarseness or indecency of language, coarsely opprobrious or jocular" which took me to 

Opprobrious: "expressing scorn; vituperative; reproachful; shameful" which took me to 

Vituperative: "containing, conveying, or expressing strong depreciation; violently abusive or fault-finding; contumelious" which took me to 

Contumelious: "tending to convey disgrace and humiliation; despiteful," finally a definition full of words I have actually heard of. Words are so delightful.

Anyways, enough of this high brow word talk. Back to the ribaldry of  Bo Carter. Here are some of his most delightful and scurrilous lyrics:

"Please Warm My Wiener"

I got somethin' to tell ya baby, don't get mad this time,
if you warm my weiner1, you give me ease all up in my mind
Baby, please warm my wiener, oh, warm my wiener,
won't you just warm my wiener, 'cause he really don't feel right cold
...if you warm my wiener one time, you gonna want him again
...I don't want you to warm half of my wiener, I want you to warm him all

"Banana in Your Fruit Basket"

Now, I got the washboard, my baby got the tub,
we gonna put 'em together, gonna rub, rub, rub
Now I got the dasher, my baby got the churn,
we gonna churn, churn, churn until the butter come
Now my baby's got the cloth, and I got the needle,
we gonna stitch, stitch, stitch, 'til we both will feel it

And I'm tellin' you baby, I sure ain't gonna deny,
let me put my banana in your fruit basket, then I'll be satisfied

"My Pencil Won´t Write No More"

Now listen here folks, there's one thing sure,

My old pencil won't write no more

Because the lead's all gone, oh the lead's all gone,

I lay down at my bed, just to write a line,

I could feel my old pencil droppin' forward all the time

I met a hot mama, I wanted to love her so bad,

I lost all the lead in my pencil I had

I hugged and kissed her, all last night,

It wasn't nothin' doin', my old pencil wouldn't write

You sure can tell when a man's pencil is wrong,

His mama's always shiftin' from home

Now listen here man, you ought to know,

Can't write for that woman you have to let her go

"Pin In Your Cushion"

Oh, let me stick my pin

Oh, in your cushion baby

'Cause your cushion's so low and warm

My pin wants your cushion for it's home

I wanna stick my pin in your cushion every night

My pin is so nice and long

My pin fills your cushion, it the best it ever see

My pin wants your cushion for it's home

As a general rule, I avoid reading any comments sections online, because they too often get nasty quick. But the comments on these youtube videos are PRICELESS.

"Please Warm My Wiener"

• I fell down the Rabbit Hole... and here I am...
• ...and people think hip-hop lyrics are dirty.
• Can't believe Oscar Mayer doesn't use this.
• So this why my grand parents had so many siblings
• C'mon he said "please"
• But please hold the sourkraut.
• This shit is hilarious - and good blues, too

"My Pencil Won´t Write No More"

• this guy doesn't quit, does he?
• I have "plenty" of lead in my "pencil" but no one to write to!
• That's what mechanical pencils are for, Bo.

This was fun. Thanks for joining me :)

With delight,

♥Jamie