LYRICS: Song of the Shrimp

Album:

Girls! Girls! Girls!

Lyrics / Music:

Sid Tepper / Roy C. Bennett, 1962

Catalog number:

LSP/LPM 2621

Recording date:

March 27, 1962

Release date:

November 9, 1962

Observation:

- Part of the soundtrack for the film "Girls! Girls! Girls!" (1962)

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LYRICS

I saw three shrimp in the water

Two were old and gray

I swam a little bit closer and

I heard the third one say

Goodbye, Mama Shrimp

Papa shake my hand

Here come the shrimper for

To take me to Louisian'

Here come the shrimper for

To take me to Louisian'

He showed his mama and papa

The shrimp newspaper he read

An invitation to all the shrimp

And this is what it said

Free ride, New Orleans

Stay in grand hotel

Big Creole gal who help you

Come out of your shell

Big Creole gal who help you

Come out of your shell

If I should live to be ninety

I will never forget

The little shrimp and the song he sang

As he jumped into the net

Goodbye, Mama Shrimp

Papa, shake my hand

Here come the shrimper for

To take me to Louisian'

Here come the shrimper for

To take me to Louisian'

Here come the shrimper for

To take me to Louisian'

Here come the shrimper for

To take me to Louisian'

Here come the shrimper for

To take me to Louisian'