Текст песни
Now we are gonna tell you all a true story
About the last of the red-hot mommas, alright
Her name was Mary, Mary Burke Norton
And she was otherwise known as the Queen of the 88s
That's right
Now when I was ten years old, I'd been playing the piano for 7 years
But I could not read a note of music
And one day my momma and daddy they said Kelley
It's time that you learn how to read some music
It might come in handy someday, and they were right
They took me to one, two, three, four, five different piano teachers
And every one of those old ladies said
Well, you play alright but this playing by ear
Is not going to go around here
And this boogie woogie thing has got to go, got to go
And every time I would go home crying
And My mom looked at my dad and she said you know what
Somethings not right and she got an idea
She said Kelley c'mon with me and don't cry no more
'Cause it's time to go see the queen
So we went down to Fifth and Arundel street in Emporia, Kansas
That's right
And we pulled up to a little brown house about the size of this stage
And out walked Mary
She's about five feet tall, just about five feet wide
She had herself a bright red wig on her head
And that woman had a ring on every finger
She was waving a cigarette around in the air
She looked me up and down
And put her hands on her hips and she said child
She said child, she said what do you want to do
And I said well I do not want to take piano lessons from you
Now remember I was ten years old at the time
And she was scaring me half to death
So she said, I don't feel like teaching you any so its alright
I asked you what you want to do
So I put my hands on my hips and I looked right back at her and I said
Well I'll tell you what I wanna do, I wanna boogie woogie
That's what I wanna do
And all of a sudden everything changed
She dropped that cigarette, she took me by the hand