Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper – I Ain’t Gonna Piss in No Jar

For those of you who offend easily…this post is probably not for you…because a lot of things by Mojo Nixon offend…and I love him for it. Well, this is a record…my second “piss” post in a week!

I’ve heard about this collaboration called “The American Psycolbilly Duo” and it fits! Mojo Nixon made some peculiar songs and some were a little deeper once you followed the lyrics. Mojo Nixon was born Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. in 1957 and he recently passed away on February 7, 2024.

This one was about threatening to personally deliver his marijuana-contaminated urine straight to First Lady Nancy Reagan. This was an answer to a bill that Reagan had to have mandatory drug tests for federal workers in the 80s. Of course, Nancy was big on “The War On Drugs.”

I’ve had a few posts about Mojo before…over his songs  “Elvis Is Everywhere,” “Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child,” and “Don Henley Must Die.”

It’s probably been since the 1980s that I heard this song. A popular Nashville rock station WKDF in the 80s would play “Elvis Is Everywhere” and a few more by Mojo. I don’t think they would have played this one but a friend had the album and it was funny.

Mojo Nixon started in the early eighties and he teamed up with  Skid Roper (Richard Banke). Mojo and Skip Roper wrote this song. It was released in 1987 and it was on his album Bo-Day-Shus!!!. Mojo has some fun music. I forgot about his songs until a blogger named Paul pointed me toward him again a few years ago.

I Ain’t Going To Piss In No Jar

Well I ain’t gonna pee pee in no cupMiss Nancy Reagan’s gonna drink it upSaid yo Nancy, we just say, no, no, no no no no noWell go ahead and fire me from my jobThere’s one little thing you ain’t gonna robThat’s my freedom, and my liberty

Well I ain’t gonna piss in no jarThem evil peckerheads they done gone too farI wouldn’t pee in their mouths if they were dying of thirstYeah we got to get rid of this evil curseI’m alive and I’m fighting this jive

Everybody should go to WashingtonWe can have ourselves a little funYou know, they want our piss, I think we ought to give it to themSurround the White House with a urinary moatSo Ronnie and Nancy will have to float on a boatGet across the stinky, steaming yellow pee pee sea, oh

You know Thomas Jefferson is gonna be mighty pissedWhen he finds out about this, I saidCome back from the dead, Tom, sock ’em in the head

Why is everybody so afraid of drugsMan they afraid of what the drugs gonna do to us

Well I ain’t gonna pee pee in no cupMiss Nancy Reagan’s gonna drink it upSaid yo Nancy, we just say, no, no, no no no no noWell go ahead and throw me in jailRam hot spikes up my tailBut you’re not gonna get a drop of no peepee out of me

I ain’t gonna piss in no jar

You know Foghorn Leghorn wouldn’t pee in no jar. You know Patrick Henrydidn’t “Giveme liberty or give me a urine sample” now did he? Aw we sure enoughrockin’ out, Skid.Huey Long wouldn’t piss in no jar! What’s gonna be next, the doo doopolice? (Fade out)

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

29 thoughts on “Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper – I Ain’t Gonna Piss in No Jar”

    1. I don’t blame you…if you are a pilot or something like that…I understand…but you can go out and get bombed with whiskey…and that is fine…

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  3. First I didn’t know he had passed, second that recording is new and quite hilarious. I was a big fan of his program on SiriusXM on the Outlaw station. I haven’t listened much lately, hence missing the news. He was a character and he knew his music.

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  5. Hehehe, he was a character! Like you I guess, I heard ‘Elvis is Everywhere’ quite a bit in the ’80s and mostly know him from that. So, this one didn’t make the top 40? LOL

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    1. Right? LOL… I thought I would have some fun today… I never thought about it…but it did start around this time…the testing.

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  6. Man, I loved Mojo and Skid back in the day! They were a staple on every college radio station in the area for several years. I got to see them once at a tiny little club in San Jose called the Laundry Works and it was a wild time. I’d never seen anything like it – before or since!

    I was bummed when I learned of his passing (did a quick shout out post on my own blog in fact), but it sounded like he went out with a bang, after a rollicking live set and closing down the bar with his fans.

    Sadly I think more people heard OF him through the Dead Milkmen (If you ain’t go Mojo Nixon, then your store could use some fixin’!!!) than actually heard his music. One of a kind!

    I doubt there will ever be another era of music like the 80’s… So much musical freedom, so much fun!

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    1. Once again I’m jealous…I would imagine live it was something totally different. I agree with you about hearing about him through them which is sad.

      Devo is another act like no one else was like…I was never a huge fan but I’d give them an A+ for being original. Anyone original like that…has my respect.

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      1. The campaign had the face of Nancy Reagan, some preachy old white woman, but under cover it was used to imprison/prosecute so many for petty drug offenses. I still think they classify weed in the same category as heroin, which is LUDICROUS. I think the Clintons carried on that WOD. What a waste of resources that could have been so much better spent.

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      2. Yes it was and still is ok to be a raging alcoholic…but don’t do pot…in any form…even if it’s legal to buy gummies…it’s still going on. Now…if you are a pilot or something like that…I can see it that…but if you sit at a desk or something like that…no.
        In other words…I think what we do in our own time is…our own time.

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  8. In the past a joint made you a drug fiend, but the sentencing was done by a red-nosed hungover shittylivered judge who just parked his cigar and bourbon reeking Caddy in his Reserved parking spot. Crazy.
    And I’m gonna have to use that word ‘peckerhead’ in a post or three.

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  10. I mean, with a title like that you have to have a listen… It’s catchy, satirical, but not preachy. And his point is still valid – those obsessed with their ‘liberty’ are often the ones least concerned with others’.

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