Big Marv And The Hodads - Sheila & Big Marv

Wow! Must've been his wife Sheila that persuaded him to sing this, as Big Marv doesn't like to sing that much. True, his voice is more of a growl (as he admits), but he brings a musician's sense of timing to a song. There's more to music than just a nice voice! Truth be known, this song started out to be something for a different artist, but somewhere along the line Marv was convinced to write one for his wife and himself.  And this song could be considered as an answer to the song his wife just recorded Big Daddy. Big Marv did say he was working on a short song to put on the answering machine of their catering/music business. Imagine, with everything else he does, he and his wife still do a lot of work for private parties, and have quite a backlog. 

 Gonna write a song for somebody else 

But they wanted me to sing it 

But I don't really sing so well, oh hell! 

I purty much just growl it 

 

Now my wife, she's my baby 

She can sang like a bird 

Not too bad to look at , no!

 Believe me, take my word 

 

Sheila and Big Marv incorporated 

Sure make a hell of a team 

We feed ya full, an ear full too 

Give ya'll the party of your dreams 

 

They say the way to a man's heart 

Is through his stomach pouch 

Tell ya what, my baby cooks so good 

She can get a giggle out a grouch! 

 

Lot a times we work together 

She's in the kitchen cookin' up a storm 

I'm at the ol' eighty eights 

Playin' songs glad and forlorn 

 

Sheila and Big Marv incorporated 

Sure make a hell of a team 

We feed ya full, an ear full too 

Give ya'll the party of your dreams 

 

 Don't matter if it's a weddin' 

Or a funeral we get hired for 

We gives 'em all a good send off 

That's what we're known for 

 

We carry on the New Orleans tradition

 Life and death's a celebration 

Whether a person's startin' or endin' 

We give ya'll an invitation 

 

Sheila and Big Marv incorporated 

Sure make a hell of a team 

We feed ya full, an ear full too 

Give ya'll the party of your dreams 

 

 Sheila brings all her own pans 

I tell ya, it's a mighty big stack! 

But man, ya'll gotta furnish the piano

 Can't carry one on my back! 

 

Be just us two or if ya want more 

We can bring all the help that we need 

To give ya musical entertainment 

And one hell of a good feed 

 

Sheila and Big Marv incorporated 

Sure make a hell of a team 

We feed ya full, an ear full too

 Give ya'll the party of your dreams