couldn't do nothin' but play guitar, wasn't interested in nothin' but womens

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I don't know whether you wanna hear this one that happened in a little country place of Florida. We had Scarface, John Hoffman, Little Walker, and myself. Anyway, this little place had a little outhouse in the back; so Walker was collectin' money at the door, and Walker had been messin' with somebody's girl up in there, and this guy come to the door; and me playin' the drums, I saw a disturbance, and they got to fightin', and everybody in the house get to fightin'. Somebody got at Hooker, and Hooker broke out the back door, and the guy started chasin' Hooker round and round the buildin'. So pretty soon, Hooker spied this outhouse, and he jumped for that, and he went down in that hole, and they had to go get him out of there! All this stuff was on him, couldn't nobody ride in the car with him, and we all had to hang on outside of the car. He was a mess! He jumped in there! We told him, we said, 'If you can jump in there, why don't you go down and jump in the lake and get some of that stuff off?' He said, 'No, man, I ain't goin' in there. It's too many alligators out there!' We had to ride all the way back to Pahokee. He was drivin', we all hangin' on top, anywhere we could. Another time, we played at a Sunday matinée in that little club out there in Florida, and this woman had a monkey in the back. Hooker would go back there, messin' with this monkey, givin' him cigarettes, and the monkey burned hisself, you know. So this woman finally let him a-loose, Hooker went to go in the bathroom, and the monkey jumped down on his neck. Across the field, Earl who couldn't get rid of this monkey, and the monkey, you know, just grabbin' Hooker's shirt! Hooker come out, he couldn't talk, 'M-m-m-man, somebody b-b-b-better come and get this monkey off of me!' The man shouldn't have messed with that monkey.