Lyr Req: Leather Britches

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leather Britches
From: fox4zero
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 02:50 AM

My best recall is that leather breeches is an slang term for dried string beans. During the late 40's or early 50's there was a "hill-billy" recording by Little Jimmie Dickens of LB: I went a' huntin, saw a bear and shot him dead Went to skin him, found I'd shot the bull instead. CH:Leather breeches Gun went off and I was gone Buckshot couldn't hurt me Cause I had my leather breeches on.

Another verse ended with "Farmer caught me in his melon patch" Regards to all Larry PARISH

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leather Britches
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 02:21 AM

EEEEEuuuooooh, too much information, you've set my fantasies back at least 2 generations...... Mind you, if it were Sean Connery's little hairy leggies and a .....

Hands up all those that think I need professional help.....

Having said that, I remember a similar song, but to a different tune.... My version has him lynched, not for boiling his trollies, but for making a profit in selling the soup he made from them....

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leather Britches
From: Homeless
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 02:06 AM

I don't recall any of the specific words, but the gist of the song was this Irish fellow during the famine wore leather britches all the time. At one point he was supposed to get everyone something to eat. Not being able to find anything, he took his pants off and made a soup from them, and served that. During/after eating, when everyone realized that he wasn't wearing his leather britches, and surmising what had happened to them, they were ready to lynch him.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leather Britches
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 02:05 AM

There's a song about this??? OOOOOOH, my life is complete, visions of a hairy 'Spaw clad in them...... Nurse, the screens again!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leather Britches
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 02:02 AM

Paddy Haggarty's Leather Britches? Give us a line or two.

Subject: Leather Britches
From: Homeless
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 12:24 AM

I saw the lyrics to this tune once in a book in a library. When I went back for the book later to copy down the words, it was nowhere to be found... And the librarian claims that they never had the book. I've got a friend who plays the tune on hammered dulcimer, but wasn't aware that there were lyrics. Can anyone help me out? Oh yeah, the title might also be spelled "Leather Breeches"