song "Can't Put the Bridle On That Mule This Morning": "Now the nigger and the white man playin' seven-up, nigger beat the white man [but he's] scared to pick it [the winnings] up". These verses have been traced back to 19th-century work songs, which were noted in an 1870s newspaper article. McClennan, who had recently arrived in Chicago from the Delta, was cautioned by Big Bill Broonzy about using racially loaded lyrics in northern cities. According to Broonzy, McClennan stubbornly refused to compromise, resulting in a hasty exit out a window during one performance with McClennan's smashed guitar around his neck. "McClennan, for his part, reflected pensively that they had indeed been forced to 'bottle it up and go'". Bluebird released the song as the B-side of "Whiskey Headed Woman" in 1939. When McClennan re-recorded the song as "Shake It Up and Go" in 1942, he used different lyrics. John Lee Hooker versions John Lee Hooker performed several adaptations of "Bottle Up and Go" throughout his career and recorded several versions of the song, usually varying the lyrics. Biographer Charles Shaar Murray identified the song as "one of the templates on which a significant slice of Hooker's early repertoire is based". Hooker first recorded a solo performance as "Bundle Up and Go" in 1959 for The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker album. Around the same time, he recorded another version as "You Gotta Shake It Up and Go", which had a group arrangement. Hooker's later versions are usually titled "Bottle Up and Go" and are included on the albums John Lee Hooker on Campus (1963), It Serve You Right to Suffer (1966), Hooker 'n Heat (with Canned Heat, 1971), and Boom Boom (1992). Other renditions Most versions of "Bottle Up and Go" recorded after Tommy McClennan's single use a combination of his verses and new lyrics. Recordings in the 1940s (often with a variation on the title) include those by Blind Boy Fuller (as "Step It Up and Go") (1940), and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1942). Murray suggests that Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" (1956) is adapted from McClennan's song. In 1952, B.B. King recorded a version with Ike Turner on piano that was released on RPM Records as "Shake It Up and Go". However, "King confuses himself by saying 'bottle up and go' half the time", according to music writer Colin Escott. King later re-recorded it