Mannish Boy
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mannish-boy-166-5870877
title:
Mannish Boy
text:
"Mannish Boy" is a blues standard written by Muddy Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley. First recorded in 1955 by Waters, it serves as an "answer song" to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man", which was in turn inspired by Waters' and Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man". "Mannish Boy" features a repeating stop-time figure on one chord throughout the song. Although the song contains sexual boasting, its repetition of "I'm a man, I spell M, A child, N" was understood as political. Waters had recently left the
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description:
Song first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1955
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannish_Boy
date created:
2005-04-21T06:17:41Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:25:14Z
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