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“High-powered women. That means a woman when she’s high-powered, she can
drive a car, she can do most anything. ’cause you know, women now, make the

news. They make the news, and if you make ’em mad, they blow out your fuse!
And when I mean they can drive a car, they can drive the airplane, they can do

everything sorta like a man. So now, I’m gonna bottle up and go for the women,
because they’re great women, way I think about it.”

His recordings contain the lines about nonagenarians and ‘gallicide’ but in his,

“Nickel is a nickel”, he “Need no girl if she want mine.”

He sings “bottle up and go”, not “bottle it up.” , though for some reason the Archive
Of Folk Music album lists the song as, ‘Burrow Love And Go’.

In 1942 Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee gave us ‘Step It Up And Go’:

Sonny-Terry-Brownie-McGhee-Clip
Their “Nickel” verse:

A nickel is a nickel, a dime is a dime.

Got to have a girl to have a good time.

Blind Boy Fuller also contributed a ‘Step It Up And Go’ slightly earlier in 1940.

Blind-Boy-Fuller-Clip
Here’s one of his verses:

Front door shut, back one too.

Blind pulled down, now what you gonna do?

You got to step it up and go, yeah and go.

Well you can’t stay and pet it, I declare you got to step it up and go.

Fellow Piedmont musician and friend of Fuller’s, Richard Trice, created ‘Pack It Up

And Go’ in 1947.

It’s vocally and stylistically indebted to Fuller, but shares no
lyrics with those he sang.

Richard-Trice-Clip
‘Verse one:

Well, I’m going to sing this song.

Goin’ away, I won’t be long.

I got to pack it up and go, yes and go.

Said my best girl quit me, sure got to pack it up and go.