Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a sound file of and a version of the lyrics for the chant "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" (also given as "Your Mama Don't Wear No Drawers").
While this example comes from the United States Armed Services, "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" has its origin in African American culture outside of the military.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/10/yo-mama-dont-wear-no-drawers.html for Part I of a pancocojams post about this chant. That post includes a 1938 example of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" that was published as part of the short story "Big Boy Leaves Home" in the Uncle Tom's Children collection of short stories by the African American writer Richard Wright.
For additional examples of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" (and its much newer spin off "Your Mama Don't Wear No Socks") click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/11/examples-of-yo-mama-dont-wear-no.html.
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This pancocojams post was inspired by the trending tweet "YoMamaGate". That twitter hashtag was coined to make fun of Trump's hashtag #Obamagate that alleges that former President Obama did some unspecified criminal act or acts when he was in office or afterwards. Click https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/yomamagate-takes-over-twitter-everyone/28627/ for information about that twitter page.
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SHOWCASE SOUND FILE: Your Mama Don't Wear No Drawers
Double Time Records, May 15, 2017
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Here's my transcription of that recording (Additions and Corrections are welcome)
[caller] Your mama don’t wear no drawers
[others]Ding dong
[caller] I saw her when she took them off
[others] ding dong
[caller] She threw them in the sky
Now Superman don’t even fly
[all] Ah ding dong
Ding dong
Dinga ding dong
Hey!
Ding dong
Dinga ding dong
Hey!
[follow this pattern for each verse]
-She threw them in the dish
I swore we was eatin fish
-She put them on the line
Now the sun don’t even shine
-She threw them on the wall
Now the bugs don’t even crawl
Left go left go lefty righty leyo
[left go left go lefty righty leyo]
Lo right leyo
[Lo right leyo]
[caller] Lo right leyo
[others] Lo right leyo
[caller] I love to double time
[others] I love to double time
[caller] I do it all the time
[others] I do it all the time
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For those who may not be familiar with this term, "drawers" mean "underwear". Nowadays, in the USA, "drawers" usually mean males' underwear and panties is used as a referent for female underwear. "Panties" is a word that was coined to refer to "small pants" that females wear under their garments.
ReplyDeleteThe word "drawers" was coined because those undergarments were (and are still) put on from the feet and drawn up to cover the butt.
I had previously written three comments that shared example of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" from a 2010 lipstick alley.com discussion thread.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I decided to showcase those comments in their own pancocojams post. Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/more-examples-of-yo-mama-dont-wear-no.html for that post.