Lucille Bogan, Till the Cows Come Home | Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥

In the 77th edition of Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥 (2024), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind “Till the Cows Come Home” by Lucille Bogan.

Ah, bring on Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥! Wait – it is not usually hot at midnight! Well, it is steaming hot 🥵 at midnight when it comes to this naughty, innuendo, and sex-laden column featuring songs intended for nighttime. We are talking about that after-dark type $hi†, ya dig? These risqué, unapologetic records often raise eyebrows and temperature alike. In the 77^th edition of Midnight Heat (2024), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind, “Till the Cows Come Home” by Lucille Bogan.

“I got a man I love / I got a man I like.” There is nothing wrong with that, Lucille Bogan (1897 – 1948). Please tell us more! “Every time I fuck them mens / I give ‘em the doggone clap 👏.” Holy shit, Lucy 🤢 🤮 🥴 🥴 🥴! According to the late blues singer, also called Bessie Jackson, “That’s the kind of pussy that they really like.”  I’m speechless 😶… So much is made of how sexual 21^st-century music is, particularly rap, yet, in the 20^th century, Lucille Bogan was risqué AF – ahead of her time. Nothing about “Till the Cows Come Home”, recorded in 1934, is family-friendly or innocent.  Approaching a century later, “Till the Cows Come Home” is shocking.  The excerpted lyrics are only the surface of the sexually charged lyrics that Bogan sings.

“You can fuck my cock or suck my cock / Or leave my cock alone.” What more can you say but ‘Cock-a-doodle-doo,’ Lucille! Singing about penis in the 1930s? Savage! She adds in the colorful second verse, “Honey, I piss all night long / You can fuck my cock or suck my cock / Baby until the cows come home.” MOO! Even after the second verse, Lucille remains brutally honest and filthy.  “You know both of my mens / They are tight like that / They got a great big dick just like a baseball bat / Ooh, fuck me.” Wow! Bogan describes herself in the fourth verse as “a bitch from Baltimore,” adding, “I’ve got spunk from them hairs that will shut the door.” In the fifth verse, she’s “got a big broad ass.” In the sixth, she’s all about reciprocation, men: “If you suck my pussy / Baby, I’ll suck your dick / I’ll do it to you, honey, ‘til I make you shit.” Yikes, yikes, yikes! Anyways, Lucille Bogan brings ample personality to one of the nastiest songs you’ll ever hear.  Does she sing well? Yes, but I’m more taken with the explicitness of the lyrics of “Till The Cows Come Home” than anything else.  We criticize the kids for being so explicit and transparent about sex, but guess what? Lucille Bogans was a sexually open book way back in the day!

Lucille Bogan // Shave ‘Em Dry: The Best of Lucille Bogan // Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. // 2004

Lucille Bogan, Till the Cows Come Home: Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥 No. 77 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.; Hasan Muneer, Natan from Pexels; Aristal Branson, Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay]