You run around with funny people you get a streak of it up your back

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There were "Big Truck" or "Big Trunk" blues, with the man trying to get a "trunk" into the woman's "closet" or a "truck" into her '"garage." Generally the trunk is too big and there is considerable "pushing and sqeezing ..." before they get it in. There were blues about dentists, with the usual idea that the girl should open wide because "... it isn't going to hurt a bit." Some of the women singers did blues about their "Handy Man" or their "Kitchen Man," usually with a verse that explained that they loved their handy man or their kitchen man for his various skills and they described exactly what he could do. Usually a handy man was described as being able to "haul ashes," a folk expression for being able to make love, but his other skills usually were only vaguely related to an open expression of sexuality. A typical blues was something like Sarah Martin's "Kitchen Man." She describes a Madam Buck who has a kitchen man who is leaving her. The woman says that she loves his "turnip tops," his "hash," his "cabbage;" that she can't do without him because "... that boy can open clams," and swears that "... No one else is going to touch my hams."