Custard Pie - Remaster

This song is based on various American blues recordings, including Blind Boy Fuller's 1939 "I Want Some Of Your Pie" and Brown McGhee's 1947 "Custard Pie Blues." It's the first song on the double album Physical Graffiti.

An influence on this song is "Drop Down Mama," a 1935 blues song by Sleepy John Estes with Hammie Nixon, which goes: Drop down, baby, let your daddy see Drop down, my lady, just dream of me Well, my mama allow me to fool around all night long These lines are very similar to the opening verse of "Custard Pie": Drop down, baby, let your daddy see Drop down, mama, just dream of me Well, my mama allow me to fool around all night long

Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones played the electric clavinet on this track; Robert plant played the harmonica break.