Song Help Request Available mabel?

Has anyone ever heard/ heard of a song that starts out:

They used to call her Available Mabel,
Mabel was a friend of mine.

One section - chorus or bridge- had the lyrics:

Get down off of that table, Mable
No you can't have another drink
Get your feet down off of that table, Mabel,
And give the cheese a chance to stink

And somewhere is/might be the line:

Get down off of that table, Mabel
The two dollars is for the beer.

I've heard some musicians play it during sound checks, but can't locate a complete set of lyrics.

Thanks!

-Kurt

Check ebay for a 45 rpm:
cgi.ebay.com/Leroy-Sapp-45-Available-Mabel-Dadburn-You-Nashville-/350361165248?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5193271dc0

Thanks, ian - but I haven't had the ability to play vinyl for years, so I can't even consider it.

-Kurt

(BTW, thanks for the songbook DVD - it was worth every penny.)

Thanks for the kind words. I can't play vinyl either, even though I have boxes of it in my basement. If you come across a copy, I'd love to get a scan to add to the collection. I'll keep an eye open for it, too.

I realize that this is a very old post but I thought I would give you the lyrics to Available Mabel by Leroy Sapp.

We used to call her available Mabel
cause her name was written on the wall.
Now I ain't sayin that Mabel was loose
but if you needed her all you did was call.
We used to turn our lights out
and park down in the field
she'd come runnin out with tennis shoes
and hinges on her heels.
Now I ain't sayin that Mabel was loose
cause she was a good friend to us all.
Now Mabel never cared about bein' no lady
she was always the hard ball kind.
I hate to say that Mabel was uncouth
but she was a little wierd in her mind.
She used to be a car hop
down at Brownies Burger Shack.
She had an apron on the front side
and a mattress on her back.
Now I ain't sayin' that Mabel was uncouth
but she was a little forward at times.
Refrain
Get down off of that table Mabel
that there money's for the beer.
Get down off of that table babe you know
they don't allow that sort of thing in here.
No hell no
you can't have another drink
now get your feet down off the bar
and give the cheese a chance to stink.
Get down off of that table Mabel
that there money's for the beer.

Me and little Hooper took Mabel to the movie
it was one of them X rated kind.
Mabel and Hooper got to groovin' on the movie
hell I never paid 'em any mind.
I was out gettin' popcorn
when I heard him gasp for breathe.
By the time I pulled her off the boy
she'd hacken him to death.
Now I ain't sayin' that Mabel was on empty
but she did lose control at certain times.
Refrain

It's a fun little song that we've had on the jukebox for years.

Well, thank you very much for that!

It is a little different than the versions I've heard over the years, but I can definitely play with it.

(In the last verse, though, what does "she'd hacken him to death" mean?)

As near as I can tell he is saying "hacken", could be "taken" but I can't be positive and I have no idea what it means. I'm guessing he was wore out. LOL

Wish I could send you a recording of it so you could hear for yourself.

Sorry to keep reposting but I should tell you how I found this forum. For years I have wondered what that very word was in the song so I finally goggled "Available Mabel lyrics" and the only thing even close that came up was this 2 year old post of you wondering about the lyrics so in the end my question still hasn't been answered and I probably got more people confused and curious.

MNLonnie said:

Sorry to keep reposting but I should tell you how I found this forum. For years I have wondered what that very word was in the song so I finally goggled "Available Mabel lyrics" and the only thing even close that came up was this 2 year old post of you wondering about the lyrics so in the end my question still hasn't been answered and I probably got more people confused and curious.

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That's a great story!

MNLonnie said:

Wish I could send you a recording of it so you could hear for yourself.

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Here's a clip

http://www.bogusrecords.com/listen/mable.mp3

alternate lyrics
http://www.redbubble.com/people/rogersampson/writing/2731837-get-off-the-tabel-mabel
http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=47978

Yeah, the Bullmose Jackson version is far more readily available than Leroy Sapp's. I think the one I first heard (40 or so years ago) was different yet, but closer to Sapp's than Jackson's. Solo guitar, picking more like Rev. Gary Davis' style.

I'll have to ask Peter Berryman the next time I see him - he did part of it it as a soundcheck one night.

That one is quite a bit different than Sapp's.

I see there are Leroy Sapp versions of the song on 45's on ebay and Amazon.