Don't Go Reaching Across My Plate Lyrics - Frostbite - Albert Collins

If one thing in this world 

I just can't stand 

Is bein' at the table wit' an ill-mannered man 

Now, if he's sittin' on your left 

Before you could eat a bite 

He'll reach across your plate 

An' you know that ain't right 

Now I like to eat, as well as any man 

But there's some rules, a fool should understand 

When ya have one little helpin' 

An' one extra piece of cake 

I tell ev'rybody, don't go reachin' across my plate 

I was at a party last night, at over Big Murray 

Cat reached 'cross my plate 

Got a coat sleeve in my gravy 

I didn't say a word, just looked him dead in the eye 

He reached across my plate, an' cut him a piece a pie 

Now I don't care if he did it for a prank 

I don't care, if you had a drink 

Especially when I'm out, a-with my date 

Now don't you go reachin' across MY plate 

At a party last week, there was some high-class folks 

Ev'rything on the table, an' that ain't no joke 

They had barbecue possum1, rattlesnake gravy 

Chicken fried skunk2, an' it smelt real crazy 

Ev'rything went fine, but one thing made me blue 

A cat reached across my plate, for some armadillo3 stew 

Now when you at the table, you act real nice 

You say, "pass me that" or "pass me the platter" 

But just because you hungry, an' happen to come in late 

Don't you go reachin', across MY plate 

"Pass some a-that turkey over there, baby!" 

"No, don't give me none of that skunk, I don't want none a-that" 

"I, I beg your pardon" 

"If this cat stop reachin' 'cross my plate, I can maybe ask for somethin'" 

"A pass me a little a-that turkey there, baby" 

Na na na na-na-na-na 

Yeah-heya 

"Party' nice, party's nice" 

"Yeah, ah give gimme some a that chicken over there, baby" 

"Chicken fried skunk? 

"Ah no"