Biography:
The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally the duo of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who began performing together on the Lower East Side of New York City in the early 1960s. Their unique blend of folk music revival and psychedelia gave them a cult-like following from the late 1960s into the 1970s. For a time the group also included the playwright and actor Sam Shepard.
Stampfel explained the origin of the name in the webzine Perfect Sound Forever:
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[Verse]
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If you go down to black bottom put your money in your shoe
D G
Cuz them black bottom women got them black bottom blues
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Verse]
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Once I knew a preacher preached the bible through and through
D G
He went down to black bottom now his preaching days are through
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Verse]
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God don’t like no ugly he say girl your home’s in hell
D G
I don’t play me no dozen I just like to count to twelve
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Verse]
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Hooker in black bottom sayin’ thank you call again
D G
If you want that A-200 gonna charge you ten
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Verse]
G
If you go down to black bottom put your money in your shoe
D G
Cuz them black bottom women got them black bottom blues
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Outro]
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
G
[Verse]
G
If you go down to black bottom put your money in your shoe
D G
Cuz them black bottom women got them black bottom blues
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Verse]
G
Once I knew a preacher preached the bible through and through
D G
He went down to black bottom now his preaching days are through
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Verse]
G
God don’t like no ugly he say girl your home’s in hell
D G
I don’t play me no dozen I just like to count to twelve
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Verse]
G
Hooker in black bottom sayin’ thank you call again
D G
If you want that A-200 gonna charge you ten
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Verse]
G
If you go down to black bottom put your money in your shoe
D G
Cuz them black bottom women got them black bottom blues
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
[Outro]
C G D G
Oh good mama papa's got them black bottom blues
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