She's So Fine; Lyric Idea

Okay, let's start with a little diddy called "She's So Fine." Here's the lyrics:

She’s So Fine

Talk about your baby,

I wanna tell ya ‘bout mine

Talk about your baby,

I’m gonna tell you all about mine

She’s got it goin on

Man, she’s so fine

She’s sweeter than honey from a honeybee

There ought to be a law the way she satisfies me

Talk about your baby,

I’m gonna tell you all about mine

She’s got it goin on

Man, she’s so fine

(guitar solo)

(bridge)

Well she ain’t too fancy

But boy is she sweet

My baby may be tied but she’ll never be beat

Let the fellas stare cause I don’t mind

I can’t blame them cause she’s so fine

She’s got dimples in her jaw, legs up to here

Gimme cold shivers when she whisper in my ear

Talk about your baby,

I’m gonna tell you all about mine

She’s got it goin on

Man, she’s so fine

(harp solo)

I’m her lover boy and she’s my only girl

Treat her like a queen, feel like the king of the world

Talk about your baby,

I’m gonna tell you all about mine

She’s got it goin on

Man, she’s so fine

This is probably the oldest of all the lyric ideas we're using on this album. At least that's the way I'm telling the story. "She's So Fine" has been put to more musical ideas than any other that I can recall as well. We have old rehearsal tapes of this lyric to around four different grooves! Anyway, here's the story on the idea for this lyric...

This song was written for my girlfriend, Paula. If memory serves, I came up with the lyric idea not long after we had started dating. As my band mates can tell you, I like to put lyrics from one song into another as we play them. Sometimes I'll come up with my own lyrics, sometimes I'll use someone else's. This is one of the latter cases. It came to me one night on-stage at a gig as we were playing another song. Sometimes I'll bring something to the gig in my head that I want to try out, and I'll just wait for the right song to try it in. Other times, well, it just happens on its own.

I think it's pretty straight forward what the lyric is talking about here. Guys will talk about the women in their lives. Some complain, some will brag how good they've got it. As far as I'm concerned, you can go on all day about how great your woman is, but I still think mine's the best.

Like I said earlier, this is an old lyric idea; maybe as old as 4 years. In that time, we've put it to a number of grooves, even played it out for a while back in like 2001 or so. The groove idea and arrangement are totally different now. There was another verse that has been dropped. It went something like

"Well I love my baby Better than I do myself You can have all the others, brother I don't want nobody else Talk about your baby..."

As we played with the new groove idea Jon brought in, the structure of the song didn't fit all the verse I had written , so we decided to drop one. Since all the verses were just a variation on the same theme, it was fairly simple to drop this verse. I didn't feel as good about this one for some reason as I did the others. I think the rhyme-scheme is cool; rhyming myself and else, but the verse as a whole didn't grab me as the others did, so bye-bye, verse and problem solved.

I like the idea of this song. It's not particularly unique concept in any way, but I feel that it's a unique way of saying what a lot of songs over the years have said. There's lots of "my baby's the best" songs out there, but this one is definitely a Mojo & the Boogieman "my baby's the best" song.