Mother Fuyer

"Mother Fuyer"
Single by Dirty Red
A-side	"Mother Fuyer"
B-side	"Home Last Night"
Released	1947
Format	78 rpm, 10" single
Recorded	1947
Genre	Jump blues
Label	Aladdin Records
Writer(s)	Dirty Red

"Mother Fuyer" was a jump blues song, written and recorded by Dirty Red in 1947. The single was released by Aladdin Records on a 78 rpm, 10" shellac single record.

The words "mother for you" or "mother fuyer", as minced oaths for "motherfucker", were used in blues and R&B records from the 1930s. Examples include Memphis Minnie's "Dirty Mother For You" (Decca Records, 1935) and Washboard Sam (1935), plus Roosevelt Sykes in 1936, with the slightly amended title of "Dirty Mother For You (Don't You Know)". The singer Stick McGhee, whose recording of "Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" was a hit in 1949, claimed that he had originally heard the song as "Drinking Wine, Motherfucker".

Red Nelson found no reason to be particularly oblique over the title of this jump blues track, which he recorded in 1947. It was released using the nom de disque, Dirty Red, by Aladdin Records (catalog reference 194A). The effective minced oath seemed to have confused the censors. The dirty blues lyrics included the lines "I got to put this mule to jumpin' in yo' stall, I'm a lovin' muther for ya". The track, which Nelson claimed to be his own on the record label, was clearly a variant of the earlier songs of a similar nature and song title.

Dirty Red's "Mother Fuyer" has been listed on numerous compilation albums, including The Aladdin Records Story (1994). Dirty Red's recording was played on episode two of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour, when the themed title was 'Mother'.

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