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Big Jim from Jackson 22 Mar 07 - 11:12 AM
Scoville 22 Mar 07 - 10:07 AM
Jim Dixon 22 Mar 07 - 07:30 AM
Amos 29 Oct 05 - 09:51 PM
The Fooles Troupe 29 Oct 05 - 08:31 PM
rich-joy 29 Oct 05 - 07:54 PM
The Fooles Troupe 29 Oct 05 - 07:28 PM
rich-joy 29 Oct 05 - 07:07 PM
Elmer Fudd 28 Oct 05 - 12:53 AM
Elmer Fudd 28 Oct 05 - 12:25 AM
rich-joy 28 Oct 05 - 12:06 AM
Bard Judith 27 Oct 05 - 11:34 PM
GUEST,Joe_F 27 Oct 05 - 09:53 PM
rich-joy 27 Oct 05 - 09:16 PM
The Fooles Troupe 17 Mar 04 - 07:34 PM
DancingMom 17 May 02 - 08:53 PM
GUEST,Judy Cook 17 May 02 - 08:47 PM
GUEST,Wayne 17 May 02 - 08:37 PM
GUEST,Judy Cook 17 May 02 - 08:36 PM
Bearheart 17 May 02 - 08:18 PM
Linda Allen 16 May 02 - 11:56 PM
Lynn 16 May 02 - 10:39 PM
Jeri 16 May 02 - 08:34 PM
GUEST,ozmacca 16 May 02 - 07:48 PM
Jim Krause 16 May 02 - 07:38 PM
Bat Goddess 16 May 02 - 07:22 PM
maire-aine 16 May 02 - 06:18 PM
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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 11:12 AM

"Five pounds of 'possum in my headlights tonight"

Arkie mentioned "The Butterbean Song" [="Just a Bowl of Butter Beans"] that is sung in Mountain View, Arkansas at the Jimmy Driftwood barn

"Old Time Nutrition" sung by Lorre Wyatt on his Folk-Legacy recording

"McDonald's Kitchen" sung by Seamus Kennedy

"Ham and Eggs" sung by Lonnie Donegan

"Peanutbutter Jam" sung by Sandy Paton

"Box of Candy and a Piece of Fruit" sung by Bob Gibson


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Scoville
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 10:07 AM

Without resorting to novelty tunes:

Old-time edibles that don't involve alcohol

How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?
Corn & Beans
Ida Red [even if it's not named for the apple]
Red Apple Juice
Greasy Meat [good tune, lousy title]
Sugar in the Gourd [both of them]
Tater Patch
Crow Black Chicken / Old Joe Clark/anything involving the "chicken pie" verse

Others

Wayne Hancock's "Smell that Bread"
Crabs in the Skillet

I'm not going to speculate on how many of those are actually about sex, in the tradition of old-time/country/rockabilly/bluegrass borrowing blues themes.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 07:30 AM

OK, sometimes I get obsessed. These are all the food songs I can find at Mudcat. The name following each title is usually a performer, not necessarily the songwriter. I have deliberately omitted many songs that merely mention food, where food is not the main theme of the song.

30,000 POUNDS OF BANANAS, Harry Chapin
ALL THAT MEAT AND NO POTATOES, Fats Waller
ANIMAL CRACKERS IN MY SOUP, Shirley Temple
APPLES IN WINTER, Debby McClatchy
AT THE CODFISH BALL, Mitchell, Pollack
BACON AND CABBAGE (I'm a savage for ...), Brenda Shine
BACON AND GREENS, Sam Cowell
BAKE THAT CHICKEN PIE, Uncle Dave Macon
BANANA SONG (Mama, will you buy me a banana), Trad. Irish?
BARBECUE, Paul Williams
BARNYARD DANCE, Martin, Bogan & Armstrong
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU EAT, Animaniacs
BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN, Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock
BISCUIT BLUES, Roy Book Binder
BLACK BEAN SOUP, David Soul
BLACK STRAP MOLASSES, Groucho Marx, Danny Kaye, Jimmy Durante
BOIL DEM CABBAGE DOWN, Fiddlin' John Carson, et al.
B-O-R-S-C-H-T, Peter Ostroushko
BOWL OF RED, Tom Russell
BOX OF CANDY AND A PIECE OF FRUIT, Bob Gibson and Tom Paxton
BREAD AND GRAVY, Hoagy Carmichael
BREAD AND MARMALADE, Music hall song
BREAD, Billy Jonas
BREAKFAST BLUES, Ronnie Levine
BREAKFAST IN MY BED ON SUNDAY MORNING, Harry Lauder
BUTTER AND CHEESE AND ALL / THE GREASY COOK, Sam Larner
BUTTERBEANS (Just A Bowl of Butterbeans), Little Jimmy Dickens
CANNED GOODS, Greg Brown
CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICKEN (LAY A LITTLE EGG FOR ME), Earl Oliver's Jazz Babies
CHICKEN A LA BLUES, Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan
CHICKEN AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A BIRD, Cab Calloway
CHICKEN CORDON BLEUS, Steve Goodman
CHICKEN IN THE FRIDGE, Jeff Deitchman
CHICKEN IS NICE, Dave Van Ronk
CHICKEN LIPS AND LIZARD HIPS, Bruce Springsteen
CHICKEN ON A RAFT, Cyril Tawney
CHICKEN SONG, Jay Unger
CHITLIN COOKIN' TIME IN CHEATHAM COUNTY, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith
CHOC'LATE ICE CREAM CONE, Rose Maddox
CHOCOLATE SONG, Moira Austen
CHOCOLATE SONG, Zeke Hoskin
CHOCOLATE, Chenille Sisters
COLD PIZZA FOR BREAKFAST, Christine Lavin
COOK ON A BARK
COOKING BREAKFAST FOR THE ONE I LOVE, Fanny Brice
CORNBREAD AND BUTTERBEANS, Carolina Sunshine Trio
CORNBREAD AND BUTTERMILK, Little Jimmy Dickens
CORNBREAD, 'LASSES AND SASSAFRAS TEA, Pee Wee King
CORNBREAD, MEAT AND MOLASSES, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
COULTER'S CANDY, Trad. Scots
COUNTRY HAM AND RED GRAVY, Uncle Dave Macon
CUP CAKES, Charley Drew
CUSTARD CREAMS, Les Barker
DIGGIN' MY POTATOES, Lead Belly
DINNER FOR ONE PLEASE JAMES, Coleman Hawkins
DON'T SLAY THAT POTATO, Tom Paxton
DON'T TOUCH ME TOMATO, George Symonette
EAT BERTHA'S MUSSELS, John Roberts and Tony Barrand
EAT ORGANIC, Emerald City Jug Band
FOOD PUN SONG, Chuck Brodsky
FORBIDDEN FRUIT, Oscar Brown, Jr.
FRIM FRAM SAUCE, Nat King Cole
GARDEN WHERE THE PRATIES GROW, John McCormack
GARLIC SONG, Ruthie Gorton
GET A LOAD OF THIS, R Crumb
GOOBER PEAS, Burl Ives
GOOD BUNCH OF BISCUITS, Jim & Jesse McReynolds
GRAVY AND BREAD, Grant Rogers
GREAT MEAT PIE
HENRY'S FISH AND CHIPS
HERRIN' AND POTATOES
HEY GOOD LOOKIN' (WHATCHA GOT COOKIN'), Hank Williams
HOKEY POKEY THE ICE CREAM SONG, Richard & Linda Thompson
HOMEGROWN TOMATOES, Guy Clark
HOW CAN I KEEP FROM EATING, Russell Aminzade & Sandy Pilskin
HOW MANY BISCUITS CAN YOU EAT, Stringbean
I ALWAYS COOK WITH HONEY, Valerie Carter
I ATE THE BOLONEY, Harry Lee
I EAT DINNER, Kate and Anna McGarrigle
I LIKE BANANAS (BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BONES), Hoosier Hot Shots
I LIKE MOLASSES, Hank Penny
I NEED A LITTLE SUGAR IN MY BOWL, Bessie Smith
I WANNA HOT DOG FOR MY ROLL, Butterbeans and Susie
IN SWEET ONION TIME (I'LL BREATHE MY LOVE TO YOU), Duncan Sisters
JAMBALAYA, Hank Williams
JELLIED EELS, Lionel Bart
JENNY GET YOUR HOE-CAKES DONE
JUNK FOOD JUNKIE, Larry Groce
KITCHEN MAN, Bessie Smith
LEFTOVER BISCUITS, Roger Handy
LIME JELL-O MARSHMALLOW COTTAGE CHEESE SURPRISE, William Bolcom, Jan Morris
LITTLE BIT OF CUCUMBER, Harry Champion
LONE FISH BALL
MALTED MILK, Robert Johnson
MAMA DON'T WANT NO PEAS 'N' RICE 'N' COCONUT OIL, Count Basie
MAN WHO EATS MEAT EVERY DAY, Parody by Dónal Thompson
MEAT CUTTIN' BLUES, Hunter and Jenkins
MEATLESS DAY, Ernie Mayne
MISS FOGARTY'S CHRISTMAS CAKE, C. Frank Horn
MRS. REILLY'S PEACHES, Eugene Field
MY DAD'S DINNER PAIL, Harrigan & Braham
NAVY GETS THE GRAVY BUT THE ARMY GETS THE BEANS, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
NEW RESTAURANT, Malvina Reynolds
NORFOLK STIFF-RUMP or APPLE-DUMPLING EATER
OH THAT GORGONZOLA CHEESE, Harry Champion
ON TOP OF SPAGHETTI, Tom Glazer
ONE MEAT BALL, Ry Cooder
ONE MEATBALL, Josh White
ORANGE COCOA CAKE, Lou and Peter Berryman
OREO COOKIE BLUES, Lonnie Mack
PANCAKE RECIPE, John Kellermann
PASS THE BISCUITS, MIRANDY, Spike Jones
PEANUT-BUTTER SANDWICH, Shel Silverstein
PEPPERS AND TOMATOES, Ralph McTell
PLEASE PASS THE BISCUITS, Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan
POLK SALAD ANNIE, Tony Joe White
POTCHEEN AND POTATOES, Julie Berrill
PRATIES THEY GROW SMALL
SEAFOOD SHOP CHANTYMAN'S SONG, Greg Trafidlo & Neal Phillips
SHOO FLY PIE & APPLE PAN DOWDY, Dinah Shore
SHORT'NIN' BREAD
SIDEMEAT AND CABBAGE, Little Jimmie Dickens
SOME HAE MEAT, Robert Burns
SOUP KITCHEN
SOUP, John McCutcheon, Si Kahn
SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN, Jimmy Work
SWEET POTATOES
TATTIES AND HERRIN', Isla St. Clair
TRINITY CAKE, Trad. Newfoundland
TURNIP GREENS
TV DINNERS, ZZ Top
VICTORIA DINES ALONE, Tom Paxton
WE'LL EAT AGAIN, Watt Nichol
WHOEVER INVENTED FISH FINGERS, Leon Rosselson
WHO'S GONNA STEAL THE PEANUT BUTTER, Jimmy Buffett
WITH MY LITTLE STICK OF BLACKPOOL ROCK, George Formby
YES WE HAVE NO BANANAS, Silver, Cohn
YOU CAN'T GET MANY PIMPLES ON A POUND OF PICKLED PORK, Fred Terry
YOUR BISCUITS ARE BIG ENOUGH FOR ME, Bo Carter


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Amos
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 09:51 PM

Here's a whole thread of them, including a parody on Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues, in this Song Challeenge.

Good laughs fondly remembered.


A


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 08:31 PM

I had IT, but I think I lost it..


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: rich-joy
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 07:54 PM

Well Robin, I think it's a case of : "if you've got it, (you HAVE to) flaunt it" - otherwise all that money spent and time/energy expended has been somewhat wasted ...

As you know, it's hard enough to make a living in these uncertain times - ya gotta use every tool in the box!!!


Cheers! R-J


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 07:28 PM

Don't you mean your 27th post?

:-P


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: rich-joy
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 07:07 PM

sorry ... but in my post of the 27th about our new Food Songs CD just out, I forgot to mention that we do take PayPal.


AND that it's the perfect Chrissie Pressie for Food & Music Lovers!!!
:~)))


Cheers! R-J


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 12:53 AM

I'm not sure if this is really food, but....

SPAM
Monty Python

Lovely spam, wonderful spa-a-m,
Lovely spam, wonderful S Spam,
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am,
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am,
SPA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AM,
SPA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AM,
LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPAM,
LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPAM,
LOVELY SPA-A-A-A-AM...
SPA-AM, SPA-AM, SPA-AM, SPA-A-A-AM!


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Subject: Lyr Add: HOT CHILI (from Steve Miller Band)
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 12:25 AM

HOT CHILI
by Tim Davis (as sung by the Steve Miller Band)

Sittin' here thumbin' through the pages of a magazine
The pages tell me come right away, you know what I mean
The air is so spacey, the ladies are lacey
And there is nothing you gotta do
But eat hot chili

Hot chili is groovy
After a movie or watching TV
But when you order
South of the border
Soon you see
It's hotter than noon
It will melt your spoon
So buddy, you better get ready
For eatin' hot chili
It's not silly
To eat hot chili

Passport in hand
I made my plan to get away
Hopped on a plane
Rode out of the rain the very same day
Soon as I landed
My wish it was granted
Lovely senoritas always drinkin' tequila, yeah, yeah, yeah
And eatin' hot chili
Eatin' hot chili
I love hot chili

Ooh I love it hot chili
Hot chili, ooh


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: rich-joy
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 12:06 AM

Hey Bard Judith! - be our guest - please feel free to purchase our wonderful CD!!!!

LOL! :~)))

(and there are lots of other great lines! for example, in "Sticky Date Pudding", the gospel number : "We're on the road to salivation ...")


Cheers! R-J


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Bard Judith
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 11:34 PM

Re RJ's post - I'd buy the CD on the strength of the 30-second clip "Fillet of Sole St. Germain" alone.

Heck, I'd buy it solely (sorry!) for the line "Place your sole in fine array...."

LOVE acappella!


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 09:53 PM

"Old Blue" has a stanza

"Baked that possum Good and brown,
Leaving sweet potatoes round and round,
Saying Come on, Blue, You can have some too."

A great American culinary experience, celebrated in song, that this company is unlikely to have had. Likewise, has anybody here had groundhog?

"Up jumped Sam with a snigger and a grin,
Groundhog grease all over his chin."

Someone shot & cooked one in the commune I belonged to, but I was away at the time & missed it.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

||: Pretense must be more perfect than performance. :||


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: rich-joy
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 09:16 PM

STOP PRESS!!!

for a great new CD of recipe songs from Mudcatters - checkout our website : http://www.peculiarhand.com/pages/atogm.html

and also the two current Mudcat threads from :

Recipes in Songs
and
New! catchy Folk Food CD - from Oz!


Thanks!

ENJOY!!!


Cheers! R-J
Down Under

(sorry, I'm still learning about internal blickies ...)


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Mar 04 - 07:34 PM


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: DancingMom
Date: 17 May 02 - 08:53 PM

Was it Dave Van Ronk or someone else who sang, " I had ham, I had ham, I had HAM, AGAIN!"

My husband sings a silly one, "Little girls have pretty curls, but I like OREOS!"

One of my favorites is by Page Wilson and Reckless Abandon, from here in Richmond, who sings with gusto about a "Chicken Thigh":

I got a thang about a chicken thigh,
Bake, broil, barbecue, or fried.
It's a simple pleasure with a simple plan.
Clean to the bone with just one hand.

A chicken thigh has only one thigh bone,
takes a yard bird where it needs to go,
If you're a thigh man, the way I am,
Two thighs fit perfectly in you hands.

Clean to the bone with just one hand.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: GUEST,Judy Cook
Date: 17 May 02 - 08:47 PM

Not just "Green & Yellow", but all Lord Randall versions, including "The Wild, Wild Berry" with that great refrain...

'Tis far better, I entreat, to have toads for your meat
Than to eat of the wild, wild berry.

I learned it from Gwilym Davies who learned it from Ray Driscoll - I put it on my second CD with two other Lord Randalls.

What A Friend We Have in Cheeses
Little Bit of Cucumber
Sour Cream

...But while I film the world of fashion
I really have a secret passion
I spend all my cash on...sour cream...

So many wonderful food songs, but I'm getting hungry so I'll stop here. --Judy


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: GUEST,Wayne
Date: 17 May 02 - 08:37 PM

"Them Hog Liver Likers" by Mason Williams; "A Box of Candy and a Piece of Fruit" by Tom Paxton and Bob Gibson.


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Subject: Lyr Add: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM EATING
From: GUEST,Judy Cook
Date: 17 May 02 - 08:36 PM

Thanks, Nancy, I learned this from Deb O'Hanlon years ago.

HOW CAN I KEEP FROM EATING
words: Russell Aminzade & Sandy Pilskin (Sandy Pliskin ?)
tune: Trad

My life goes on in endless flow of breakfast, lunch and dinner
I eat them all with gusto though they will not make me thinner
For eating brings me so much joy, and joy in life is fleeting
So while there's food still on my plate, How can I keep from eating.

Some chicken soup with matzoh balls will bring me peace and pleasure
An eclair or some chocolate cake brings joy no tongue can measure
Some broccoli with hollandaise would set my heart to beating
It sounds a rumbling deep within. How can I keep from eating.

I'm getting rather plump these days; I think I'll take up running.
To lose a meager pound or two takes self control and cunning
I've tried a million kinds of diets; they're all so self-defeating
I open up the pantry door - How can I keep from eating.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Bearheart
Date: 17 May 02 - 08:18 PM

Well, being in a hurry I didn't check, but I'm guessing the posting by Joe Offer is the thread I came across some time ago all about the Coconut Song. I immediately shared it with my husband, who sings the first three lines to me regularly (in a very suggestive way, I might add) but who could not remember the rest of the song. If that is not the thread I remember, please look for it. everything you'd want to know about the song including lyrics.

In our house food and sex are definitely bedfellows. And definitely are both considered a route to ecstasy. Perhaps that's where the confusion is, since ecstatic states are a bit mindblowing?


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Linda Allen
Date: 16 May 02 - 11:56 PM

Hi, Folks - This is a great thread! I can add one of mine: Sally's Quiche from my CD, October Roses. I started a recipe songs thread some years back -- I'll see if I can find it. This song has the complete recipe. If it's not already posted, I'll add it.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Lynn
Date: 16 May 02 - 10:39 PM

Couldn't scan the whole lot, but here's a couple that come to mind.

Guy Clark's 'Home Grown Tomatoes'

Greg Brown's 'Canned Goods'

Uncle Dave's 'Country Ham and Red Gravy' (I always used to call it 'The Hammy Song' till I learned otherwise).

Tasty thread!


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Jeri
Date: 16 May 02 - 08:34 PM

Batty, this one?

Wintertime is gone and past-o
Salads grace our plates at last-o
We shall to our waitress say
Please to bring us all a side of may...
o. Hail, hail, the taste of mayo
Salad dressing, go away-o
Noodles, burgers, fries or hay
Always taste best with a side of may

o




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Subject: RE: food songs
From: GUEST,ozmacca
Date: 16 May 02 - 07:48 PM

For my money - which you're not going to get 'cos I need it to buy those non-essentials like food and clothing - a song performed by the Corries called "Food Blues" says it all.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Jim Krause
Date: 16 May 02 - 07:38 PM

Y'know, Uncle Dave Macon seemed to sing quite a few songs about food, or songs that at least mentioned food. Some that come to mind are:
Jim


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 May 02 - 07:22 PM

"On Monday we had bread and gravy.
On Tuesday was gravy and bread.
On Wednesday and Thursday was gravy and toast. On Friday we went to the landlord
To get something else instead.
So on Saturday morn, just as sure as you're born
We had gravy without any bread."

And how about Dave Webber's "May Song" which is all about Mayo and Pasta:
"Summertime is here and past-o" and
Hail, hail the First of May-o"

Linn


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Subject: RE: food songs (refresh)
From: maire-aine
Date: 16 May 02 - 06:18 PM

Dear folks,

In this thread on March 15th, the following was posted: "Another author I enjoy Bert Williams wrote a song about food that I like to play. Well actually it's about the hazards of eating, it's called Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You.

"When you eat banana fritters, every undertaker titters and the casket makers nearly go insane." Bert Williams

Reggie Miles"

The line about banana fritters is not in the version posted in the DT. Reggie Miles if you are still there, or anybody, please would you kindly post or PM the rest of your lyrics.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 31 Aug 01 - 05:12 PM

Cook with Honey sung by Judy Collins.

Friday Night Fish Fry.

Chittlin' Cookin' time in Cheatham County.

Someone mentioned Prairie Home Companion - - Powder Milk Biscuits theme.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: MMario
Date: 31 Aug 01 - 12:03 PM

*snicker*


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 May 00 - 04:26 PM

Going back to my misspent youth in the late Pleistocene, there was a song called "Five Salted Peanuts."

One of my favorites out of the depression is "Beans, Bacon & Gravy", about being so poor that the only thing he can get to eat day in and day out, week in and week out, is beans, bacon and gravy. It is in the DT, I think.

Dave Oesterreich


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 May 00 - 03:59 PM

Here is Flanders & Swann's The Reluctant Cannibal, mentioned by Roger the Skiffler above.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Whistle Stop
Date: 18 May 00 - 11:21 AM

For something of a more recent vintage, check out "Fast Food" -- Richard Thompson at his satirical best.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 18 May 00 - 05:49 AM

...of course once you get into the blues there are a whole raft of 'em (some[?!] may contain sexual innuendo!):

Nuts;

Kitchen Man;

Hot Dog Man;

Put a hot dog in your roll;

numerous with references to "hambone" and/or "jelly roll", lots more in the Smith/Spivey/Rainey canon, many kept alive by artists like George Melly and Dana Gillespie.
Then when the meal is over, you have to clear away:to the strains of Champion Jack Dupree and "Garbage Man"
RtS


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: TonyK
Date: 17 May 00 - 11:50 PM

I love this thread. Of those mentioned, Chicken Cordon Bleus and Oreo Cookie Blues are my favorites.The Bobs do a couple of good ones:'Food to Rent' and 'Corn Dogs'.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: GUEST,Roger in Baltimore
Date: 16 May 00 - 07:50 PM

Of course, the famous "One Meatball" performed by Josh White.

Richard McDonald did a love song to "yellow corn" which I must find one day.

As Sonny and Cher said "And the beet goes on."

Big Rib


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 16 May 00 - 08:50 AM

Long thread but I don't think anyone's mentioned Flanders & Swann's Reluctant Cannibal "I won't eat people" (favourite line: "It must have been someone he ate"!).
RtS


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Croney
Date: 15 May 00 - 11:38 PM

These are so great! Also, check out the Recipe Songs thread. I'm still looking for songs that have the full recipe in it --


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: BlueJay
Date: 13 May 00 - 02:13 PM

It's possible I didn't see it, but I don't think anyone's mentioned Guy Clark's "Homegrown Tomatoes". Really lively funny song. My favorite part:

If I could change this life I lead,
You could call me Johnny Tomato Seed
I know what this country needs,
It's home grown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cold dark cemetery
Out in the garden would be much better
Where I could be pushin up those home grown tomatoes.

BlueJay


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Subject: from an old second city routine
From: GUEST,jeffs
Date: 13 May 00 - 10:56 AM

Oh, I hate liver! Liver makes me quiver Liver makes me curl right up and die, it makes me cry

jeffs


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Robo
Date: 13 May 00 - 01:10 AM

One more, from John Prine, a number more aptly about the lack of food: "I come home from work this evening, there was note in the frying pan/it said fix your own damn supper, babe/I run off with the Fuller Brush man." [FRYING PAN]


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Susan A-R
Date: 12 May 00 - 10:34 PM

Keep 'em coming. This thread brightens the tired chef's day.

Susan A-R


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 May 00 - 07:43 PM

Metchosin: It's admirable that you took the trouble to post "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts," but it will never end up in DigiTrad unless you either (a) use the "Lyr Add:" prefix in your subject line, or, failing that, (b) post a message on the thread called Songs you've posted.

Furthermore, the song has already been posted by Joe Offer here, so you could have saved yourself some trouble just by finding it and setting up a blue clicky.

I mention this because a LOT of people make this mistake, and there are a LOT of lost songs sitting in threads somewhere. I've found dozens of them. See my postings in "Songs you've posted" for examples.

Now, I wonder why Joe didn't harvest the song for DigiTrad himself?


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 May 00 - 06:41 PM

From Mudcatters, there's All God's Chillun Got a place in the Fire.

From Prairie Home Companion, there's What a Friend We Have in Cheeses.

And if Midchuck would be kind enough to post it, there's a fine food parody on a Woodchuck's Revenge CD called "Mama Fried". @food is a productive search item on DigiTrad.


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Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH OF COCONUTS^^
From: Metchosin
Date: 12 May 00 - 01:52 PM

Well by request because Spaw didin't do it, here is:

I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH OF COCONUTS

Down at the county fair
One evening I was there
I heard a Barker shouting
Underneath the flair...

Oh, I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts
There they are all standing in a row.
Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head
Give 'em a twist, a flick of the wrist,
That's what the showman said.

Oi! I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts
Every ball you throw will make me rich
There stands me wife
The idol of me life,
Singing roll a bowl, a ball, a penny a pitch.

Singing, roll a bowl a ball a penny a pitch
Roll a bowl a ball a penny a pitch,
Roll a bowl a ball
Roll a bowl a ball
Singing, roll a bowl a ball a penny a pitch.


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Subject: Lyr Add: ALL THAT MEAT AND NO POTATOES^^
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 May 00 - 01:06 PM

ALL THAT MEAT AND NO POTATOES
(Lyrics by Ed Kirkeby, tune by Fats Waller, 1941)

A man works hard then comes on home,
Expects to find stew with that fine ham bone,
He opens the door then start to lookin',
Says, "Woman, what's this stuff you're cookin'?"

All that meat and no potatoes
Just ain't right, like green tomatoes.
Here I'm waiting, palpitatin',
For all that meat and no potatoes.

All that meat and no potatoes
All that food to the alligators, yes,
Hold me steady, I am ready
For all that meat and no potatoes.

I don't think that peas are bad
With meat most anything goes
I look into the pot; I'm fit to bite
Cause woman you know that mess ain't right.

All that meat and no potatoes
Just ain't right, like green tomatoes.
Yes, I'm steamin', I'm really screamin'
All that meat and no potatoes.

Where is my fry & hambone? Where is it?
- - -
@food JTD


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Subject: Lyr Add: DIET SONG (Shel Silverstein)^^
From: DADGBE
Date: 12 May 00 - 12:47 PM

Grant Rodgers can be found on a Folk Legacy recording singing 'Bread and Gravy'. Just ask Sandy.
But after enjoying many of these songs for years and enjoying their subject better, Shel Silverstein's 'Diet Song' comes to mind. It strikes as close to the bone as it can get these days.

Breakfast: black coffee, one slice of dry toast, no butter, no jelly, no jam;
Lunch: just some lettuce, two celery stalks, no booze, no potatoes, no ham;
Dinner: one chicken wing broiled, not fried, no gravy, no biscuits, no pie;
And this dietin', dietin', dietin', dietin' sure is a rough way to die.

So pass me a carrot stick, peel me a prune, one glass of skim milk and that's all.
Turn off the TV for the Big Mac commercial; it's drivin' me straight up the wall.
I'm thinkin' of French fries, sausage and waffles, spaghetti, and cookies and cake,
And each night I'm dreamin' of chocolate ice cream 'n' I'm starvin' to death when I wake—
All for your sake.

Well, you're fixin' the kids all those creamed mashed potatoes, but it's bullion and water for me,
And you've got a lock on the refrigerator; Lord knows where you're hidin' the key,
And while I am starvin' for food late at night, I'm starvin' for lovin' from you,
But you say that when I can see my own dick you'll be back to look at it too.

So, suffer two pieces of cauliflower raw, some beefsteak the size of a nail,
One slice of tomato, a small dab of slaw, Lord, I swear I ate better in jail.
Stop eatin' that pizza right under my nose; girl that's the least you can do,
And put down that candy bar while I am singin'; I'm starvin' my ass off for you.

And when I am dead, with the insurance paid, you'll look down at me and you'll grin.
You'll say:"Well, the boy tried, and he starved and he died, but don't he look good when he's thin?"


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 12 May 00 - 11:50 AM

I don't think anyone mentioned Fats Waller (someone else who loved food as much as music!): "HOLD TIGHT (Want Some Sea Food Mama)", "Shrimps and rice, they're very nice".
RtS (Built for comfort, not built for speed)


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Subject: Lyr Add: THE VEGETABLE SONG
From: GUEST,Joel
Date: 12 May 00 - 11:33 AM

The Vegetable Song

You're my sweet potato but I like to cauliflower dear
so honey let us beet it and squash this thing right here
I've got an 18 carrot ring bought with my celery
and onion finger I will place it because you've bean so nice to me
And if my rival turnip I artichoke him dead
or tie a string bean round his neck and pumpkin full of lead
so honey let us beat it to a taxi cabbage near
we'll have the parson-ip to-mate-us in a radish church right here


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: GUEST,Airto
Date: 12 May 00 - 05:19 AM

Louis Jordan had a perfectly ridiculous song, 'Beans and Cornbread', about how they fall out and make up again.

I also like the song 'Bread and Gravy'. The only version I know was done by Freddy White, an Irish singer, but the original must be much better known.


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Subject: RE: food songs
From: Stewie
Date: 12 May 00 - 03:45 AM

Actually, the correct title of the 'Starry-gazy pie' song is 'Tom Bawcock's Eve' - the eve before Christmas eve when the tradition was to eat a pie made of seven sorts of fish. The fish heads stuck out of the pie and hence the 'starry-gazy' line. Great song.

--Stewie.


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