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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?
Wayne Hancock's "Smell that Bread" |
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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, 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,
Someone shot & cooked one in the commune I belonged to, but I was away at the time & missed it. |
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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,
A chicken thigh has only one thigh bone, 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 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 ...But while I film the world of fashion |
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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
My life goes on in endless flow of breakfast, lunch and dinner
Some chicken soup with matzoh balls will bring me peace and pleasure
I'm getting rather plump these days; I think I'll take up running.
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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. 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: 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; 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. |
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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.
Well, you're fixin' the kids all those creamed mashed potatoes, but it's bullion and water for me,
So, suffer two pieces of cauliflower raw, some beefsteak the size of a nail,
And when I am dead, with the insurance paid, you'll look down at me and you'll grin. |
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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 |
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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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