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Podcast: Song Lyric Meanings
Episode: "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters
Description: Song Lyrics Meaning - Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters
"Mannish Boy" (or "Manish Boy" as it was first labeled) is a blues standard written by Muddy Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley (with Waters and Diddley being credited under their birth names). First recorded in 1955 by Waters, it serves as an "answer song" to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man", which was in turn inspired by Waters' and Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man". "Mannish Boy" features a repeating stop-time figure on one chord throughout the song.Although the song contains sexual boasting, its repetition of "I'm...