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[Obs]

Guitar in "whoa black betty"
Guitar in "superstitious" by stevie

Both were cursed with shit lyrics and zero vision. The riffs could have been legendary in a whole different way.
Superstitious acoustic leading to black bettys bass...

I should have been a rock star but they are all skinny little bitches.

[diesel101]

Went old school this week been on a Cinderella kick this week.

[Beetlegeuse]

Guitar in "whoa black betty"
Guitar in "superstitious" by stevie

Both were cursed with shit lyrics and zero vision. The riffs could have been legendary in a whole different way.
Superstitious acoustic leading to black bettys bass...

I should have been a rock star but they are all skinny little bitches.

Almost all, but not quite all. Alice Cooper once had a picker named Kane Roberts playing for him who dabbled with the 'roids. He's no Austrian Oak but he's no PeeWee Herman either. So you'd have had at least one brother of the iron.

As for lyrics, if you're talking RamJam's cover, they just should have picked a different song. Best guess is that Lead Belly wrote Black Betty some time in the early 1930s, probably adapted from earlier folk songs. Two or three other blues men recorded it before Lead Belly did his 1939 version. And 85 years later, nobody knows what the hell a "black betty" is.

Which beats "Louie Louie." When the Kingsmen did their 1963 cover of the song, nobody (at least none of the Kingsmen) even knew what the lyrics were! The songwriter's original version wasn't exactly high fidelity (and distortion is the soul of R&R anyway) so they just improvised. They used words that sounded kinda close and threw in unintelligible sounds in the bridges to make the tempo work. Then word got out the FBI was investigating them for obscene lyrics. Which they should have found amusing, since they mostly were just muttering sounds that approximated what they heard on the original record, except this was back in the J. Edgar Hoover days. And back in those days, if you heard the FBI was investigating you for stealing green cheese from the moon, you better go hire a lawyer, ...and a good one.

But come to find out, it was low fidelity (or maybe bad elocution) that got the Kingsmen off the hook. The FBI's labs said they couldn't tell for certain what was being said on the record, which also meant they couldn't tell to a reasonable certainty whether it was obscene.

Believe it or not, the FBI keeps the Louie Louie case files online!

It wasn't until 1988 that Esquire magazine tracked down the song's writer and got the lyrics in print for the first time. By that time there were hundreds of cover versions, every one of them using made-up lyrics or nonsense words. No doubt much of the song's popularity was due to the risqué lyrics but after all that time, come to find out there's nothing remotely obscene in it, even by 1960s standards.