Chick Pulling Songs

Subject: Chick Pulling Songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 02:13 AM

I'm sorry, but I just couldn't look at the thread titled 'net pulling songs' one more time...

So - just What Folk Songs do you reckon should be mentioned here?

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: GUEST,Jeff
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 02:44 AM

Don't think this is considered a 'folk song', but 'Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' was ALWAYS aces. 'Darkness, Darkness' was another one. 'The Wind Cried Mary', 'Til I Gain Control Again', 'Brown Eyed Girl', 'Hard Headed Woman', 'Sad Lisa', 'Fire And Rain', 'Needle And The Damage Done'...I could go on, but that's enough for a start.

Out of ALL those songs, though the G&P song NEVER failed.

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 03:53 AM

G and P...?

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Barry Finn
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 04:05 AM

I'd rather pull pork & sing about that. Chicks are just a baby bird that's between a boned egg or a chicken without the bone

Barry

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: 12-stringer
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 04:11 AM

G&P = Gerry and the Pacemakers

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: fat B****rd
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 04:33 AM

How about "Please Let Me 'cos I 'aven't 'ad It For Ages Blues"
Always fails.

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Acorn4
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 04:56 AM

I would think most sea shanties would be out of the running!

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: GUEST,JM
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 07:10 AM

I would think most sea shanties would be out of the running!

Thats pretty much all that The Rambling Sailor is about! And as for I'll Go List For A Sailor -

"My days were honey and my nights were the same
Till a man called Cobb from the ocean came
with his dark hair and his muscular frame
A captain on board of a whaler

He spent his money both brisk and free
With his tales of the land and his songs of the sea
And stole my Sarahs heart from me
And blighted the hopes of a tailor

Once I was with her and in came Cobb
'Avast!' he cried 'you blubbery swab
If you don't knock off I'll scuffle your knob'
And Sarah smiled on the sailor"

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 07:45 AM

I don't think you'd score much points by serenading a girl with the Ramblin' Sailor....

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: GUEST,JM
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 07:52 AM

Says who?

Works for me... :)

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 12:10 PM

Ginny Reilly (Reilly and Maloney) did (does?) one that should be good for this category, some way or another:

The I don't know what I want from you but I ain't gettin' it blues.

John

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Celtaddict
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 01:50 PM

And here I was looking for a chicken-plucking work song.
My old man's a chicken-plucker, now whattayou think about that,
He wears a chicken-plucker's collar, he wears a chicken-plucker's hat.
Or
I'm not the chicken-plucker, I'm the chicken-plucker's son
And I'm sitting pluckin' chickens 'til the chicken-plucker comes.
No, that's funnier with pheasant-plucker.

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 01:57 PM

I know a chick who keeps pulling songs from Youtube.

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Melissa
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 01:58 PM

Jimmie Ballard sang a classy chicken plucking song called Chicken Plucker.

"I'm a chicken plucker, plucking on the daylight shift
plucking comes natural..guess I've got the gift"

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 08:26 PM

Obviously none (with a few exceptions just maybe) of you "folks" have ever plucked a chicken. After slitting its throat the next step is immersing it in a pot of boiling water and after a few minutes you'll find that the feathers can be plucked out readily.

It really doesn't require a work song but my brother and I used to improvise, making use of the current rock and roll songs of our day (the late Pleistocene). That was really the origin of how "Wake Up Little Suzie" became "Wake Up Susiana." The world is now a better place because of our creative efforts.

No, we never plucked a chick, that didn't happen until we were both much older, but still little wiser.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 08:29 PM

Another afterthought:

Chicks are really too small for plucking but one might consider plucking pullets.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Barbara
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 12:36 AM

What about your Peace Corps chicken massacreeing days, Charlie?
If I remember, you let that one get away from you.
Blessings,
Barbara

And speaking of chick pulling songs, here's an interesting story about the creation of a "chick pulling song" Song for Vic (Borneo) . Scroll down to a post midway from "Vic at work" for whom the song was written.

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Tradsinger
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 03:42 AM

Listen to the words of 'The Nutting Girl' - a bloke sings and his voice is so beautiful that a girl throws off her clothes and offers him her body. It is a technique I have tried on many occasions but the results are patchy to say the least.

Tradsinger

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 04:21 AM

G and p....set m tinking.

Not many people drink gin and peppermint these days. can you still get it in pubs?

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Mr Happy
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 09:30 AM

...........well there's always this one :@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6816

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Mr Happy
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 09:34 AM

& more- Gerry cross the Mersey!http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_ngRUVzq8

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 09:52 AM

"The Kind of Love You Never Recover From" always breaks hearts. So does "I remember Loving You", and in a raunchier vein, the Townes van Zandt "Ain't Leaving your Live".


A

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: theleveller
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 10:02 AM

'Chick pulling' - what a delightfully quaint turn of phrase - haven't heard that since about 1969.

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son
And I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes.

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Mr Happy
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 10:11 AM

theleveller,

See my link?

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: theleveller
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 10:37 AM

Oops, missed that!

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Mr Happy
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 10:53 AM

Wake up, that boy at the back!!

Subject: RE: Chick Pulling Songs
From: Hawker
Date: 02 Jun 08 - 01:06 PM

If we are talking about 'chick' as in the fairer sex, speaking as a female, I'd have to say its not the song but the execution of that song - there are one or two men who could sing ANYTHING and I would go weak at the knees.
Cheers, Lucy