Oh wee oh, oh oh

"talking 'bout the detroit crawl"

Peace! Praise for Sheila E.'s rap.

I love that song!

Great!

Love the song.

"They say that there's nothing better
Than sleeping on a rainy day
We could spend the night together
Tell me, baby, what you say?"

"Ooo, hoo. Ooo, hoo."

:nightowl:

That'z my jam...yeah..

Ah! This! Song!

I used to play this song on my walkman full blast while doing my paper route. My line of thought went like this: "this song is so funky, I don't care if it makes me deaf".

Nowadays I can't hear a thing, but I still have that bassline echoing in my skull! (j/k)

Those horns, that bass, every melody in this song complements each other so sweetly. Brilliant!

Confusion! Yeah!

G0d said:

I love it!

Love the performance in the SOTT film! Prince on drums!

some of the funkiest stuff ever! i never tire of this one! "everybody in the west, everybody in the east. fuck with me tonight, put it on y'all, chicken grease!"

Love Sheila's Transmississippi rap (wasn't that what it was called?).Didn't I read somewhere she did that part over the phone and that's how it was recorded?

I'd love to hear what the song sounded like before the overdubs were added. Is this version known to exist?

Great track and one of the highlights of disc 2 of SOTT. And it was the last song ever made by The Revolution, WHAT WHAT!!!!!

Nice of them to go out with a bang!

Said the Table 2 the Chair
"U can hardly be aware
How I suffer from the heat
And from chilblains on my feet"
"If we took a little walk
We might have a little talk
Pray let us take the air"
Said the Table 2 the Chair
(Can't nobody fuck with us {repeat})

Said the Chair unto the Table
"Now U know we are not able
How foolishly U talk
When U know we cannot walk"
Said the Table with a sigh
"It can do no harm 2 try
I've as many legs as U
Why can't we walk on 2?" (Say...)

So they both went slowly down
And walked about the town
With a cheerful bumpy sound
As they toddled round and round
And everybody cried
As they hastened 2 their side
"See! The Table and the Chair
Have come 2 take the air"
(Paris, y'all, can't nobody...) (Say it y'all)

But in going down an alley
2 a castle in the valley
They completely lost their way
And wandered all the day
Till, 2 see them safely back
They paid a Ducky-quack
And a Beetle, and a Mouse
Who took them 2 their house

When they whispered 2 each other
"O delightful little brother
What a lovely walk we've taken
Let us dine on Beans and Bacon"
So the Ducky, and the leetle (Say it, y'all)
Browny-Mousey and the Beetle
Dined, and danced upon their heads
Till they toddled 2 their beds

Good God, uh!


(from DTT)

It was a beautiful night

The "rap" is actually a poem called "the table and the chair" by the English writer Edward Lear (1812-1888), who was specialised in literary nonsense.

hjd said:

I knooooow.

Anyways. Now I need a Dr Seus rap by Prince.

HamsterHuey said:

Huey! Juss saying high!

I love that song. I always want to dance when it comes on my iPod.

cant nobody fuck with us!
cant nobody fuck with us!

thepope2the9s said:

Yes I can.
Anally, if I have to.

cassingle said:

the revolution kicked it..but the SOTT whooped some ass on this joint!!!

crunkytown said:

yes



yes

L4OATheOriginal said:

co-sign

L4OATheOriginal said:

Oh man, is it just the straight concert performance?

cassingle said:

no lyrics from the released version

One of my favorite songs Appreciation threads-guess we still love em

Sheila did her thing with The Table and The Chair bit

I love this song.