Water Baby Blues
"Water Baby Blues"/"Water Baby Boogie" is a Western swing instrumental first recorded in 1946 by Merl Lindsay (4 Star 1117) and which became his signature song. Often recorded as "Water Baby Boogie" it became a popular dance tune.
Doyle Salathiel, Lindsay's brother and jazz guitarist who sometime played with the band, wrote a set of novelty lyrics for the tune. Called "Singing Water Baby Blues" (Mercury 70119, 1952) it has such lyrics as:
- Some are red and some are green,
- But not the one that I have seen.
- The one I saw was colored blue.
- Supposed to bring good luck to you.
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