Folks, now here's the story <br />'bout Minnie the Moocher, <br />She was a red-hot hootchie-cootcher, <br />She was the roughest, toughest frail, <br />But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale. <br /><br />[Call and response scat chorus <br />differs every time. The <br />following is simplified:] <br />Hi-de-hi-de-hi-di-hi! <br />Ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-ho! <br />He-de-he-de-he-de-he! <br />Ho-de-ho-de-ho! <br /><br />Now, she messed around with a bloke named Smoky, <br />She loved him though he was cokie, <br />He took her down to Chinatown, <br />He showed her how to kick the gong around. <br /><br />Now, she had a dream about the king of Sweden, <br />He gave her things that she was needin', <br />He gave her a home built of gold and steel, <br />A diamond car with a platinum wheel. <br /><br />Now, he gave her his townhouse <br />and his racing horses, <br />Each meal she ate was a dozen courses; <br />She had a million dollars worth <br />of nickels and dimes, <br />And she sat around and counted <br />them all a billion times. <br /><br />Poor Min, poor Min, poor Min.
