Fannie Mae

Album: The New King Of The Blues (1959)
Charted: 38
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  • I want somebody to tell me what's wrong with me
    Oh I ain't in any trouble and so much misery
    Now Fannie Mae, baby won't you please come home
    Fannie Mae ae ae, baby won't you please come home
    Yeah I ain't been in debt baby since you been gone
    I can hear your name a ringin' on down the line
    I can hear your name a ringin' on down the line
    I want to know pretty love how do I win my time, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh

    I know for me, I know for me
    Well I ain't been in trouble and so much misery Writer/s: Clarence L Lewis, Morris Levy, Waymon Glasco
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Kitten from NcBuster Brown, autograph picture worth anything?
  • AnonymousDid buster made it on film,tv,public television singing
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 18th, 1960 'Fannie Mae" reached #1 on the R&B charts, the previous 10 weeks the top spot had been held by 'Baby (You've Got What It Takes)' by Brook Benton and Dinah Washington!!!
  • Jim from Custer, SdDid the Rolling Stones ever pay any royalties for using the music & arrangement of FANNIE MAE under the words to "their" UNDER ASSISTANT WEST COAST PROMO MAN? Mick & Keith didn't even change the tempo.
  • David from Fort Worth, TxThis is one of those songs with a hook. The hook is the repetitive lick that goes all through the song and just grabs you. If Freddy Mercury had sang it I still would have loved the song, but it really works with Buster Browns down home, soulful, gut wrenching, vocals that keep you rocking the entire song through. I found this song on a jukebox in Houston Texas where the band I was in at the time was playing, and remembered it from when I was a preschooler. That lick just kept going, and going, through my mind, and I loved every minute of it. The guys in the band were into the song as well, although we didn't have any juice harps, or horns, we still had a rockin' good time trying to imulate Buster Brown. One fun song, Fannie Mae.
    David H. Fort Worth, TX
  • Steve from Salt Lake City, UtThe punch drunk singing & the woozy harmonica & general roadhouse mania here make for a great ol' party rekkid!
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