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Minnie the Moocher

As performed by Cab Calloway on the Original Soundtrack
Words & Music by Cab Calloway & Irving Mills

Hey folks, here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher.
She was a low down hoochie coocher.
She was the roughest toughest frail
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.

Hidehidehidehi (Hidehidehidehi)
Hodehodehodeho (Hodehodehodeho)
Hedehedehedehe (Hedehedehedehe)
Hidehidehideho (Hidehidehideho)

She messed around with a bloke named Smokie.
She loved him though he was cokey.
He took her down to Chinatown
and he showed her how to kick the gong around.

Hidehidehidehi (Hidehidehidehi)
Whoah (Whoah)
Hedehedehedehe (Hedehedehedehe)
A hidehidehideho (Hidehidehideho)

She had a dream about the king of Sweden.
He gave her things that she was needin'.
He gave her a home built of gold and steel
A diamond car with the platinum wheels.

Hidehidehidehidehidehidehi (Hidehidehidehidehidehidehi)
Hodehodehodehodehodehodeho (Hodehodehodehodehodehodeho)
Scoodley voo, scoodley voo, scoodley voodley-voodley voo (......)***
..... (.....)***

He gave her his townhouse and his racing horses.
Each meal she ate was a dozen courses.
Had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes
She sat around and counted them all a million times.

Hidehidehidehi (Hidehidehidehi)
Hodehodehodeho (Hodehodehodeho)
Hedehedehedehe (Hedehedehedehe)
Hidehidehideho (Hidehidehideho)

Poor Min, poor Min, poor Min.

***Okay. That line is, I think, pretty close to what he says there. That last line is up to anybody's interpretation. ;-)

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