New Jelly Roll Blues by Peg Leg Howell Lyrics

[Verse 1: Peg Leg Howell]
Jelly roll, jelly roll, ain't so hard to find
Ain't a bakin' shop in town make 'em brown like mine

[Chorus: Peg Leg Howell]
I've got a sweet jelly, a lovin' sweet jelly roll
If you taste my jelly it'll satisfy your weary soul!

[Howell and Williams interrupt each other]

[Verse 2: Peg Leg Howell]
—Run my daddy blind
That jelly you got'll change anybody's mind

[Chorus: Peg Leg Howell]
I've got a sweet jelly, I've got a sweet jelly roll
If you taste my jelly, your mama can't keep you home!

[Verse 3: Henry Williams]
The reason I love my best gal so
She's got the same jelly roll she had a hundred years ago
[Peg Leg Howell]
Sweet jelly roll
When you taste that jelly it'll satisfy your weary soul!

[Williams murmurs]

[Verse 4: Henry Williams]
Jelly roll, jelly roll, layin' on a fence
If you don't come and get it you ain't got no sense

[Chorus: Peg Leg Howell]
Taste that jelly, it's a lovin' sweet jelly roll—
Taste that jelly it'll satisfy your weary soul!

[Verse 5: Peg Leg Howell]
Old Aunt Dinah she's long and tall
Spreads her legs from wall to wall

[Chorus: Peg Leg Howell]
Oh, she's got a sweet jelly, got a sweet jelly roll
Taste your jelly, your mama can't keep you home—Ha!

[Verse 6: Peg Leg Howell]
She laid right down, in the grass
You've never seed a woman shake her jelly so fast
[Chorus: Peg Leg Howell]
She's got a nice jelly to satisfy your weary soul—
Taste that jelly, your mama can't keep you home!

[Verse 7: Peg Leg Howell]
I've never been to church and I've never been to school
Come down to jelly, I'm a jelly-rollin' fool

[Chorus: Peg Leg Howell]
I've got a sweet jelly, satisfy my weary soul
I like my jelly and I like to have my fun!