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It's Heated

by Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon

on Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon Vol. 1 1926-1929 (1994), Let's Knock a Jug (2021)

Folks I'm going to tell you, about a brand new song
I'm going to beat some dirt, and it won't take long
It's called heated, I mean heated
You got to heat it and warm it, let the good work go on

Well they cool it on State Street, warm it down the line
You ought to hear the frogs on Durban, singing and crying
Talkin' about heated, Lord I gotta heated
You got to heat it and warm it, let the good work go on

Now the folks down east, are crying Lord Lord Lord
Gang in the west, say the cops is so hard
They said heated, they said heated
You got to heat it and warm, it let the good work go on

Well I went down to Michigan, came up Grant
Saw the sweetbacks and the strutters, all raising sand
Talkin' about it heated, they mean it's heated
You got to heat it and warm it let the good work go on

I went to a good‑time flat, last Saturday night
The cops knocked on the door, everybody made their flight
What's the matter, they say heated, the flat's heated
You got to heat it and warm it let the good work go on

I met myself a good gal, she said she was fifty‑one
She started to loving and squeezing, I thought she say son you just begun
I need heatin', I need heatin'
You got to heat it and warm it let the good work go on

Now a yellow gal is like a frigid zone, brownskin's about the same
You want some good loving, get yourself an old Crow Jane
She's heated, Lord she's heated
You got to heat it and warm it let the good work go on

Now I ain't no janitor, no fireman's son
But I can keep your boiler hot, till the superintendent come
I mean I'm heated, I mean I can heat it
You got to heat it and warm it let the good work go on