Developed in the 1930s, the "ball and biscuit" microphone
was used by the British Broadcasting Corporation (The BBC).
It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
And right now you could care less about me
But soon enough you will care, by the time I'm done
Let's have a ball and a biscuit, sugar
And take our sweet little time about it
Let's have a ball, girl
And take our sweet little time about it
Tell everybody in the place to just get out
And we'll get clean together
And I'll find me a soapbox where I can shout it
You read it in the newspaper
Ask your girlfriends and see if they know
You read it in the newspaper
Ask your girlfriends and see if they know
That my strength is ten-fold, girl
I'll let you see it if you want to before you go
Let's have a ball and a biscuit, sugar
And take our sweet little time about it
Let's have a ball
And take our sweet little time about it
Tell everybody in the place to just get out
We'll get clean together
And I'll find me a soapbox where I can shout it
Yeah, I can think of one or two things to say about it, now listen
It's quite possible that I'm your third man
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
It was the other two which made me your third
But it was my mother who made me the seventh son
And right now you could care less about me
But soon enough you will care, by the time I'm done
Yeah, you just wait
So stick around, we'll figure it out
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
And right now you could care less about me
But soon enough you will care, by the time I'm done
Let's have a ball and a biscuit, sugar
And take our sweet little time about it
Let's have a ball, girl
And take our sweet little time about it
Tell everybody in the place to just get out
And we'll get clean together
And I'll find me a soapbox where I can shout it
You read it in the newspaper
Ask your girlfriends and see if they know
You read it in the newspaper
Ask your girlfriends and see if they know
That my strength is ten-fold, girl
I'll let you see it if you want to before you go
Let's have a ball and a biscuit, sugar
And take our sweet little time about it
Let's have a ball
And take our sweet little time about it
Tell everybody in the place to just get out
We'll get clean together
And I'll find me a soapbox where I can shout it
Yeah, I can think of one or two things to say about it, now listen
It's quite possible that I'm your third man
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
It was the other two which made me your third
But it was my mother who made me the seventh son
And right now you could care less about me
But soon enough you will care, by the time I'm done
Yeah, you just wait
So stick around, we'll figure it out
White once said he has three dads: his biological
father, God and Bob Dylan. Dylan was the first concert he ever saw — he
says he had seat No. 666 — and he shares with his hero a love for
manipulating and obscuring his own persona.
How Jack White got to play Ball & Biscuit with Bob Dylan:
“That was just by accident. I went and saw him play in Detroit and he
said to me, “We’ve been playing one of your songs lately at sound
checks.” I thought, Wow. I was afraid to ask which one. I didn’t even
ask. It was just such an honor to hear that. Later on, I remember I went
home and I called back. I said, “Can I talk to the bass player?” I
called the theater. I was like, “Did Bob mean that he wanted me to play
tonight? ‘Cause he said some things that I thought maybe – maybe I
misconstrued. Was he meaning that he wanted me to play with him tonight?
I don’t want to be rude and pretend that I didn’t hear or something
like that.” So turned out yeah, we played together that night. He said
yeah, come on, let’s play something, and we played “Ball and Biscuit,”
one of my songs. It’s not lost on me that he played one of my songs, not
the other way around.”
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