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Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song
In Mudcat MIDIs:
Uncle Bud (from Steamboatin' Days, Mary Wheeler (1944))
Uncle Bud (from Randolph/Legman, Roll Me In Your Arms: Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore)
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD From: John M. Date: 04 Mar 05 - 05:25 PM Hello everyone, If you are easily offended, please STOP READING. This thread is for mature audiences only. Please don't post "dreadful song" or "worst song written" as you are not helping. Below is a traditional bawdy song titled: Uncle Bud (recording)
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: John M. Date: 05 Mar 05 - 07:10 AM Uncle BudDESCRIPTION: "Oh, Uncle Bud goin' down the road, Haulin' women by the wagon load, Uncle Bud (x3), Bud, Doggone it, Uncle Bud." About Uncle Bud's odd exploits, sexual anatomy, and extravagant farming methods, as well as poverty and perhaps the hope for salvationAUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (recording, Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers) KEYWORDS: humorous drink death sex bawdy FOUND IN: US REFERENCES (1 citation): MWheeler, pp. 95-97, "Uncle Bud" (1 text, 1 tune) Roud #10035 RECORDINGS: Anonymous singer, "Uncle Bud" (on Unexp1) Grant & Wilson, "Uncle Joe" (QRS, 1929) (Decca, 1938) Booker T. Sapps, "Uncle Bud" (AFS 370 A1, 370 A2, 1935) Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Uncle Bud" (on Columbia 15221-D, 1928) Notes: Most versions of this song are bawdy, to a greater or lesser extent. A Texas variant, recorded by the anonymous singer on Unexp1, recounts stories about Uncle Bud Russell, who was in charge of transporting prisoners to the state prison at Huntsville -- but the song clearly existed in tradition before then, and was adapted to local use. - PJS File: MWhee095 The Ballad Index Copyright 2004 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: John M. Date: 07 Mar 05 - 02:24 PM Further references: "Uncle Bud", titled "O! Bud", is found in the 1928 "Six New Negro Songs with Music" article by Nicolas Joseph Hutchingson Smith in the Follow the Drinkin' Gou'd journal of the Texas Folk-lore Society 1928. A six stanza bawdy "Uncle Bud" with music can be found on pgs 249-50 of Roger Abrahams' "Negro Folklore in South Philadelphia" unpublished 1962 dissertation. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: PoppaGator Date: 07 Mar 05 - 02:32 PM I wanna know about Uncle Bud's "extravagant farming methods" ???!???!! Must be nasty.... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Stewie Date: 07 Mar 05 - 08:18 PM A version of 'Uncle Bud', as sung by a Texan songster, George Bernard, was issued on a 1981 LP produced for Rounder by Mark Wilson and Lou Curtiss: Various Artists 'Just Something My Uncle Told Me: Blaggardy Folk Songs from the Southern United States' Rounder Records O141. Wilson noted: 'George Bernard from Washington, Texas, is in his late sixties and now a Holiness preacher. Hearing Sam Chatmon perform some of his rowdy pieces at the San Diego Folk Festival induced George to come into Lou Curtiss' record shop and announce "OK, I'm going to put all this stuff down for you so you'll have it and then I'm never going to to mess with it no more". And he hasn't'. Although fairly full, 'Uncle Bud' seems relatively tame compared to some of the other pieces on the album. Unfortunately, my copy of the album is in very poor shape - probably from playing with worn needles on a variety of record players at parties over the years. Because of the condition of the record, Bernard's slurring and also his vigorous guitar accompaniment at times, the words are almost impossible to decipher. However, it begins: Oh Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, you know he's a man like this (x2) You know, he caint get nothing from the women, Always could do it to his fist Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, you know he's a man and a half (x2) They tell me his nuts hang down (indecipherable) below his arse At the end of the song the 'nuts' verse is repeated with the line changed to: 'You know his nuts hang down, baby, just below his arse'. Wilson noted that there are other versions on Flyright's Library of Congress series and 'a remarkably dry-cleaned' rendition on Roosevelt Charles' Vanguard record. I also have an obscene recording by Gary B.B. Coleman which has traditional floaters as well as original verses by Coleman - for example, it has 'the baseball bat' stanza. To give the flavour of piece, it begins: I'll tell you a story about a man you don't know He's a diry mother-fucker from the word say go I used to think that Uncle Bud was nice Till the sorry mother-fucker he stole my wife He lives alone all by hisself Had ten wives and he fucked them to death Uncle Bud's got this and Uncle Bud's got that Uncle Bud's got a peter like a baseball bat It gets worse after that, with references to the anatomical attributes of Uncle Bud's women and several scatalogical stanzas. In true traditional spirit, Uncle Bud goes to hell but is too much for the devil: Uncle Bud he died and he went to hell He grabbed Tom Devil and he fucked him well All the little devils up beside the wall [Said] release him, daddy, 'fore he fuck us all The reference is: Gary B.B. Coleman 'Too Much Weekend' Ichiban Records ICH-1140-CD. I hope the above is of some help in your quest. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Stewie Date: 07 Mar 05 - 08:35 PM There is a sound sample of Coleman's 'Uncle Bud' at CDNow: CLICK HERE. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 07 Mar 05 - 09:10 PM A verse that I heard from a friend from western Oklahoma doesn't seem to fit the verse meters above "Who in the hell in the God damned nation Shit all over Uncle Bud's plantation? Uncle Bud and the whole damned crew Come here and help me saw this turd in two." |
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Subject: ADD Versions: Uncle Bud From: Joe Offer Date: 07 Mar 05 - 10:06 PM There's not much in Randolph/Legman Roll Me In Your Arms - five fragments, only one with a tune.
Click to play (Randolph/Legman #99A) |
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Subject: ADD Version: Uncle Bud From: Joe Offer Date: 07 Mar 05 - 10:18 PM Here's the version from Wheeler's Steamboatin' Days (cited in the Traditional Ballad Index). Uncle Bud Oh, Uncle Bud goin' down the road, Haulin' women by the wagon load. CHORUS Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, Bud, Dog-gone it, Uncle Bud. Up he slipped an' down he fell, Mouth fell open like a mussel shell. He passed by here, an' sweepin' low, Forgot his bottle an' overcoat. Some of these mornin's, it won't be long, I'll leave this town blowin' my horn. Way down yonder where I come frum, Feed them niggers off hard, parched corn. Growed so tall, growed so fat, Swelled up big, couldn't wear a hat. Some folks say Uncle Bud wuzn't aroun', It's a goddam lie, he's leavin' town. Some folks say Uncle Bud wuz dead, It's a goddam lie, he ought to be in bed. Worked in the summer an' all the fall, Now winter caught me in blue overalls. Click to play |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: John M. Date: 08 Mar 05 - 01:00 PM Thanks everyone for the references. I have just purchased the 'Too Much Weekend' CD. Yours, John Mehlberg |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,Hadaway Date: 29 Nov 06 - 11:34 PM Me and Uncle Bud's was Headin To town Riden the Billygoats and stompin the clowns UP.! JUMP the Billygoat...Jump!! Me and Uncle Bud went stridden a stump.. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Big Al Whittle Date: 30 Nov 06 - 06:17 AM What was the provenance of this kind of song? Presumably they weren't broadcast. But did they get onto jukeboxes in out the way country places. Or where godfearing country folk repelled by this sort of thing, and it was for college boys - not getting much sex, but drinking a lot and thinking about it a lot. When were the Uncle Bud records made. The words have a very authentic sound to them - as though the writer/performer knew the audience they were singing to. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 30 Nov 06 - 11:12 AM Stewie, What about posting the entire Gary B.B. Coleman "Uncle Bud" lyrics? I (and perhaps others) would appreciate seeing the entire thing. And bluenoses can always skip over the message. Thanks, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 30 Nov 06 - 11:12 AM |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE JOE (version of UNCLE BUD) (Wilson) From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 30 Nov 06 - 11:35 AM I've made several attempts to post this to the "RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song" thread without success (hope it doesn't eventually result in multiple postings). Trying again: ******* "Race" records were able to get away with more innuendo than most others in the 78 rpm era. There were some humdingers, like Bo Carter's many songs -- "Banana in the Fruit Basket," etc. The married duo of Leola and Wesley Wilson were a stage act known for their "blue" songs. We can assume their stage version got dirtier depending on the venue. They made lots of other records! This version of the traditional "Uncle Bud" is far from being their most suggestive song, in fact it's pretty mild. Their rewrite, changing the characters and creating their own verses, was evidently aimed at creating a copyrightable, distinct version that would be associated with them and nobody else. Bob UNCLE JOE Leola B. Wilson and Kid Wesley Wilson (as COOT GRANT AND SOCKS WILSON) Paramount 12833 (also on QRS label), c. Feb 1929 Uncle Joe's got a horse flies through his field, Horseflies from his tail like an automobile, Uncle Joe, good Uncle Joe Uncle Joe took Sal through the market square, She saw a hog, just start to rootin' right there, Uncle Joe, mean Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe is a man just full of vim, Ain't no man can paddle by him, Uncle Joe, sweet Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe take a bath once every fall, Cain't wash all over 'cause the tub too small, Uncle Joe, old Uncle Joe Ow de yow, yow, yow de yow yow etc. (scatting) Uncle Joe, says, gal, what you got on yo' mind? Ain't had no lovin' in a long, long time, Uncle Joe, sweet ol' Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe went to call on Betty['s?] Bone, He was too much man, so she sent him on home, Uncle Joe, good ol' Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe sells cotton bale by bale, He'll [hang a sign says?' Seeds For Sale, Uncle Joe, sweet Uncle Joe Uncle Joe's no fool, he knows everything, All the gals said Joe can sho' shake that thing, Uncle Joe, sweet Uncle Joe. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,Richie Date: 30 Nov 06 - 08:02 PM Hi Bob, Some of the versions of Uncle Bud I have use the same melody and form as "Froggy Went a Courtin'." So I guess you could trace Uncle Bud songs back to the 1500's. Richie |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Lighter Date: 01 Dec 06 - 10:23 AM Hi, Bob. All Catters who know stanzas of this poorly documented song should post them. A couple of notes: Hart Stilwell, "Border City" (1945): "He was singing a little ditty about Uncle Bud trying to look like a Jersey bull--a ditty calculated to bring conversation in a mixed crowd to a dead halt in a hell of a hurry." N.Y. Times, June 1, 1998: "Mr. Wolfe still has to complete the last chapter of his 700-page-plus novel, which only recently was given the title of 'A Man in Full.' The name was inspired by a South Georgia or North Florida folk song, which Mr. Wolfe recited with zest to the conventioneers: 'Uncle Bud was a man in full. He had a back like a Jersey bull. He didn't like taters. He didn't like pears. He's got a gal that's got no hairs.'" From Internet in 1999: "If you're gonna be a man, be a man in full, let your bag hang down, like a Jersey bull." All are clearly related. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Severn Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:52 PM The late Boozoo Chavis does a cleaned up version on Rhino Records Cajun anthology "Alligator Stomp" (Vol.1). I believe the liner notes, which I don't have with my used copy, mentioned he'd privately recorded a raunchier version, but I don't know where. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Barry Finn Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:52 PM "Uncle" Bud Russel was the "Transfer Man" for the Texas Prison System for 40 yrs starting in 1912. He had already beem in the employ since 1908 as assistant transfer agent. The transfer wagon was called originally the Black Maria, "We call Uncle Bud's old wagon Black Betty". "Then one morning I heard chains rattling down the corridor of the jail & somebody hollered that Uncle Bud had come & Black Betty was waiting" (290-291, The Land Where the Blues Began-Allan Lomax), Black Betty would take you there but it wouldn't take you away. Bud Russel would travel around picking up the convicted prisoners from around the different counties & bring them to Huntsville (also called "The Walls") which I believe would've been the "new man house" from there the "cons" or "victs" would be eventually be transfered to other state prisons or farms. When Bruce Jackson was collecting in the mid to late 60's "Bud Russel's name was still used throughout the system: 'We'll, let's go go get Uncle Bud's cotton,' or 'Let's get some a Uncle Bud's cows' Whatever it might be, it's still uesed"(p. 290-291 Wake Up Dead Man-Bruce Jackson). Bruce Jackson says that Bud's wagon was also called Black Annie. From "The Midnight Special" "Younder come Bud Russel, how in the world do ya know I can tell by the his wagon & the chains he wore (or I know him by his big hat & his 44) Big pistol on his shoulder, big knife in his hand He come-in to carry you back to Sugarland He walks into the jail house, with his cahins in his hand I heard him tell the captain "I'm the transfer man" "Go Down OLd Hannah" Well I see Bud Russel, WELL, WELL, WELL Little boy, with his ball & chain, WITH HIS BALL & CHAIN Little boys he gonna take you BACK TO SUGERLAND "Sure Make A Man Fell Bad" "Wouldn't mind working, IT SURE MAKE A MAN FELL BAD For Uncle Sam, IT SURE MAKE A MAN FELL BAD Workin for Uncle Bud IT SURE MAKE A MAN FELL BAD It ain't worth a damn, IT SURE MAKE A MAN FELL BAD." Barry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 02 Dec 06 - 09:07 AM Black Annie also resulted in a song, or at least a fiddle tune, by that title. I think the Georgia Yellowhammers recorded it. It may originally have been Afro-American. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (from Zora Neale Hurston) From: Jim Dixon Date: 03 Dec 06 - 07:40 PM The Library of Congress American Memory Collection, has a recording of Zora Neale Hurston singing this song. She was already a published novelist, and working for the Federal Writers' Project in Florida when she made this recording in 1939. Here's my transcription: [Spoken:] UNCLE BUD is not a work song. It's a sort of social song for amusement, and it's so widely distributed, it's growing all the time by incremental repetition, and it is known all over the South. No matter where you go, you can find verses of UNCLE BUD, and it's a favorite song, and the men get to workin' in ev'ry kind o' work, and they just yell down on UNCLE BUD, and nobody particular leads it. Ever'body puts in his verse when he gets ready, and UNCLE BUD grows and grows and grows. Q. ...is it sung before the respectable ladies? A. Never! It's one o' those jook songs, and the woman that they sing UNCLE BUD in front of is a jook woman. Q. Of course, you've heard it.... A. (Laughs) Yes, I've heard it from.... [Sings:] Uncle Bud's a man, a man like this: He can't get a woman, gonna use his fist. [Refrain after every verse:] Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud. Go into town, gonna hurry back. Uncle Bud's got somethin' I sure do like. (or "lack"?)... Oh, little cat, big cat, little bitty kitten, Gonna whup their tails if they don't stop shittin'.... Uncle Bud's got corn that sure needs shuckin'. Uncle Bud's got gals that sure needs fuckin'. [ZNH deliberately muffles the last word.] ... Uncle Bud's got gals that got no hairs. Uncle Bud's got cotton ain't got no squares.... Oh, 'taint no use in you raisin' sand. You gotta take that turd off o' grandpa's land.... Oh, who in the hell in the God-damned nation Shits his turd on pa's plantation?... Oh, little cat, big cat playin' in the sand, Little cat fart like a nat'ral man.... Uncle Bud's a man, a man in full. His nuts hang down like a Georgia bull.... Uncle Bud's got gals that's long and tall And they rocks their men from wall to wall.... Uncle Bud's got gals long and tall And they rock their hips like a cannonball.... [Spoken:] I don't know--. I know I know some more verses but right off, I just don't recall 'em. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (Boozoo Chavis) From: GUEST,xf Date: 07 Jan 07 - 01:32 PM The late Boozoo Chavis does a cleaned up version on Rhino Records Cajun anthology "Alligator Stomp" (Vol.1). I believe the liner notes, which I don't have with my used copy, mentioned he'd privately recorded a raunchier version, but I don't know where. The unexpurgated version of Chavis' "Uncle Bud" appears on his late-nineties album Who Stole My Monkey?, along with another track in a similar vein entitled "Deacon Jones". These two earned Who Stole My Monkey? the distinction of being the only mass-released zydeco album to bear a parental advisory label. It'd be quite a shock to people who have only heard Buckwheat and think that zydeco is children's music. I haven't been able to completely work out the lyrics, but the parts I can make out go roughly like this: Eighteen, nineteen, twenty years ago Uncle Bud beat the shit outta Cotton-Eyed Joe Uncle Bud! Some people say Uncle Bud is dead; It's a goddamn lie, he's sick in bed Uncle Bud! Uncle Bud got a daughter, her name is (Roan?) (?) like her father, make an old man moan, Uncle Bud! Uncle Bud got cotton ain't never been picked, Uncle Bud got corn ain't never been shucked, Uncle Bud got a daughter ain't never been fucked, Uncle Bud! Down in Louisiana where the grass grow green, They got more bitches than you ever seen, Uncle Bud! Uncle Bud got this, Uncle Bud got that, Uncle Bud got a pecker like a baseball bat, Uncle Bud! Big fish, little fish, (climbin'?) up the water, Some sonovabitch done fucked my daughter, Uncle Bud! (Jimmy?) come and knock with a pack on his back, He bring more cock than he can pack, Uncle Bud! Some people say (his penis?) ain't right, Done made him sick, It's a goddamn lie, Them Louisiana ho's (That run his crank?) Uncle Bud! You can get Who Stole My Monkey? from Amazon. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (Skillet Lickers) From: Richie Date: 20 Jan 07 - 07:35 PM I think this is the first recording of Uncle Bud by the Skillet Lickers in 1928. You can clearly see the relationship with "Froggie Went A-Courtin" including some of the lyrics. (If anyone knows the first line it would help- not sure of lyrics) UNCLE BUD Skillet Lickers 1928 (Fiddle plays tune) *I got a gal and she's at you Uncle Bud I got a gal and she's at you Uncle Bud I got a gal and she's at you She don't wear no- yes she do, Uncle Bud Where will the wedding supper be? Uncle Bud Where will the wedding supper be? Uncle Bud Where will the wedding supper be? Way down yonder in a holler tree, Uncle Bud. (Fiddle plays tune) Uncle Bud gets married on Sunday morn, Uncle Bud Uncle Bud gets married on Sunday morn, Uncle Bud. Uncle Bud gets married on Sunday morn, He's gonna bring back a gallon of corn, Uncle Bud. (Fiddle plays tune) I know a man they called Bud, Uncle Bud I know a man they called Bud, Uncle Bud I know a man they called Bud, He carried his whiskey in his jug, Uncle Bud. (Fiddle plays tune) Big cat, little cat playin' in the sand, Uncle Bud. Big cat, little cat playin' in the sand, Uncle Bud. Big cat, little cat playin' in the sand, Little cat yelled like a natural man, Uncle Bud. (Cat sounds then fiddle) Where will the wedding supper be? Uncle Bud Where will the wedding supper be? Uncle Bud Where will the wedding supper be? Way down yonder in a holler tree, Uncle Bud. * uncertain of lyrics here |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (Gary B.B. Coleman) From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 08 Feb 07 - 01:26 PM The following is unexpurgated, but if you're this deep on the thread, that's no surprise to you. This, it seems, is one of our first looks at what "Uncle Bud" might have been like at its absolute bluest. Lyrics supplied courtesy of Richie: UNCLE BUD As sung by Gary B.B. Coleman 'Too Much Weekend' Ichiban Records ICH-1140-CD. (R &B sound w/guitar, organ, bass and drums- intro) I'll tell you a story about a man you don't know, He's a dirty mother-fucker from the word say go, I used to think that Uncle Bud was nice, Till the sorry mother-fucker, he stole my wife. Cho: Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, Goddamn him Uncle Bud. He lives alone all by hissel, Had ten wives and he fucked them to death, Uncle Bud's got this and Uncle Bud's got that, Uncle Bud's got a peter like a baseball bat. Uncle Bud's got a gal and her name is Matt, She got a twelve-pound pussy and it's big as a hat, Uncle Bud's got a gal and her name is Emmaline, Her ass keep cookin' like a watermelon rind. Old Aunt Dinah come floatin' down the street, With her ass and her body just a-twitchin' to the beat, Doney, doney don't need to flirt, Cause I see shit on your underskirt. Who in the hell in this damned ol' nation, Shit this turd on my plantation, Don't give a damn if it's a woman or a man, You gotta move this shit or I'm gonna raise some sand. Some folks say Uncle Bud don't steal, That's a Goddamn lie he's in my watermelon field, Seed in the watermelon throwin' away the rind, Preacher in the gospel lyin' all the time. Here come a dog with his tail hushed up, His ass all shinin' like a new tin cup, Here come another one trottin' down the road, The jaws of his ass 'bout to shiver in the cold Bud's got a gal and her name is Christine, She's got good pussy but she don't keep it clean, He's got another girl and they call her Mutt, You Ask her for her pussy she'll offer you butt. Friends of mine know what I'm talkin' about, Fucked ol' Mutt and he knocked her out. Uncle Bud he died and he went to hell, He grabbed Tom Devil and he fucked him well, All the little devils up beside the wall, [Said] release him, daddy, 'fore he fuck us all, Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud Goddamn him Uncle Bud (Repeat and fade) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,Tim Keene Date: 24 Oct 08 - 06:16 AM In "Foller de Drinkin' Gou'd" edited by J. Frank Dobie (Texas Folklore Society, 1928), there is a chapter entitled "Six New Negro Folk-Songs with Music" by Nicolas Joseph Hutchinson Smith. The last song mentioned is "O Bud!" The first verse is printed with the melody. Mr, Smith writes the following paragraph regarding the lyrics: The nature of this song is such as to prohibit the printing here of the six collected stanzas that go with the music. The words are desposited in the Harvard College Library, as well as at the College of William and Mary. The song was sung for my benefit by Mr. Page W. Powell, in 1924; he said that he learned it in Northampton County, Virginia. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 24 Oct 08 - 05:00 PM Adding to the post by Tim Keene- The single verse, printed with brief 4/4 score: O BUD There's corn in the field, there's corn in the shuck, There's girls in this world ain't never been touched. O Bud, Uncle Bud, O Bud, O Bud, O Bud. The melody does not differ in essentials from the one given in Randolph-Legman and the midi given by Joe. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST Date: 24 Oct 08 - 05:54 PM Note the lyrics in the old circa 1928 tune, "Mississippi Mud," recorded by many artists, including Paul Whiteman and Bing Crosby. Could "Uncle Dud" have been inspired by "Uncle Bud?" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 24 Oct 08 - 05:54 PM Apologies to the webmaster - that last post wuz mine. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,robert blau Date: 15 Mar 12 - 11:41 PM uncle bud built his on the water to keep us fellahs from screwing his daughter three little nigger boys sittin on a gate ass holes poppin like a ford V eight little old girl why dont you run along how can you fuck when you cant cum uncle bud uncle bud uncle bud bud bud |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (Boozoo Chavis) From: GUEST Date: 08 Oct 12 - 09:44 PM The recording I have of Uncle Bud sung as a zydeco song by the late Boozoo Chavis is even cleaner than the one reported in this thread by guest.xf. Using his notes and listening to the recoding over and over, here's what I hear: Eighteen, nineteen, twenty years ago Uncle Bud beat the devil outta Cotton-Eyed Joe Uncle Bud! Some people say Uncle Bud is dead; But that's a damn lie; he's sick in bed. Uncle Bud! Uncle Bud got a daughter, her name is Roan. Body like his daughter, make an old man moan, (My best guess) Uncle Bud! Uncle Bud got cotton ain't never been picked, Uncle Bud got corn that never been shucked, Uncle Bud got a daughter ain't never been touched, Uncle Bud! Big fish, little fish, climbin' up the water, Some son-of-a-gun done court my daughter, Uncle Bud! Down in Louisiana where the grass grow green, They got more women than you ever seen, Uncle Bud! Uncle Bud got this, Uncle Bud got that, Uncle Bud got a big old cow-boy hat, Uncle Bud! Jimmy come up with a pack on his back, He bring more cotton than he can pack, Uncle Bud! Now if only I could figure out the music. Anyone have it? -Rand. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Dead Horse Date: 09 Oct 12 - 04:51 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEgbfXdzb28 Not hard to find. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 Oct 12 - 08:54 AM I have listened on Spotify to Boozoo Chavis' "dirty" version of UNCLE BUD from "Who Stole My Monkey," and I believe I can make these corrections to the lyrics posted by GUEST,xf above: 3. Uncle Bud got a daughter, her name is Roan. What I like about her, make an old man moan, Uncle Bud! 9. Some people say peas an' rice They made him sick; it's a god-damned lie. Them Lousiana ho's they run his crank. Uncle Bud! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 Oct 12 - 09:23 AM I've listened to Gary B. B. Coleman's recording of UNCLE BUD on "Too Much Weekend," and I believe I can make these corrections to Bob Coltman's transcription above (By the way, I think it's better represented as 2-line verses rather than 4-line verses.): Uncle Bud's got a gal; her name is Emmaline. Her ass stands open like a watermelon rind.... Old Aunt Dinah come floatin' down the stream. [I couldn't make out the next line but I'm pretty sure it's nothing like Bob Coltman's version.].... He's eatin' the watermelon, throwin' away the rind, Preachin' the gospel, lyin' all the time.... Here come a dog with his tail hished up, [hoisted] His asshole shinin' like a new tin cup.... Here come another one trottin' down the road, The jaws of his ass like the sugar in a bowl. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers) From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 Oct 12 - 10:26 AM Here's my transcription from the recording that I heard on Spotify: UNCLE BUD As sung by Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers on "The Very Best Of (1926-1934)" (2012) Originally recorded on Columbia 15134D, Nov. 2, 1926. I got a gal and she's a chew, Uncle Bud. I got a gal and she's a chew, Uncle Bud. I got a gal and she's a chew. She don't wear no—yes, she do, Uncle Bud. Where shall the wedding supper be, Uncle Bud? Where shall the wedding supper be, Uncle Bud? Where shall the wedding supper be? Way down yonder in a holler tree, Uncle Bud. Uncle Bud gets married on Sunday morn, Uncle Bud. Uncle Bud gets married on Sunday morn, Uncle Bud. Uncle Bud gets married on Sunday morn. He's a-gonna bring back a gallon o' corn, Uncle Bud. I know a man, they call him Bud, Uncle Bud. I know a man, they call him Bud, Uncle Bud. I know a man, they call him Bud. He carried his whiskey in his jug, Uncle Bud. Big cat, little cat playin' in the sand, Uncle Bud. Big cat, little cat playin' in the sand, Uncle Bud. Big cat, little cat playin' in the sand. Little cat yell like a nat'ral man, Uncle Bud. Where shall the wedding supper be, Uncle Bud? Where shall the wedding supper be? Way down yonder in a holler tree, Uncle Bud. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (DOG-GONE HIM) (Tampa Red) From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 Oct 12 - 10:55 AM Another of my transcriptions from Spotify: UNCLE BUD (DOG-GONE HIM) As sung by Tampa Red on "Tampa Red Vol. 2 (1929)" (2005). 1. They told me Uncle Bud was a mighty good fella But my … boys, you will all know better. CHORUS: Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, dog-gone him, Uncle Bud. 2. Let me tell you boys what Uncle Bud will do: Steal your jelly, make a monkey of you. 3. Now I took Uncle Bud to be my right-hand friend. He stole my jelly 'n' in my face he grinned. 4. He ain't got no sense 'cause he didn't go to school, But the women all thinks he's a jelly-beatin' fool. 5. Now I ain't two bits; don't talk about my friend. Gonna kill him if I catch him at my house again. 6. Now Uncle Bud's old lady, she's a good old soul, But I just can't stand her; she's 'most too old. 7. You might think he's all right but don't pay him no mind. He's a-whippin' your jelly 'most all the time. 8. Boy, if you catch him at your house, don't do him no harm. Just ask the old man to be a-moving along. 9. He's built like a tadpole, shaped like a frog. When he love your woman, she'll holler "Hot dog!" 10. Just keep it, young lady; Tampa Red don't want it. Uncle Bud done had his ol' paws all on it. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST Date: 02 Aug 21 - 03:56 PM I know this is an old thread but I was looking for a specific version of uncle bud that I can’t find and maybe somebody remembers. It was sung by someone on the show Alice (you know, at Mel’s diner)? It was just a short clip and went like this: Uncle bud’s got cotton uncle bud’s got corn uncle bud’s got chil-ren ain’t never been born Ooh, ahh, uncle bud! They obviously had to clean it up for network TV and I believe there was one more verse but I don’t remember it. Maybe it was cotton ain’t never been plucked and corn ain’t never been shucked. Something like that. Thanks! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,# Date: 02 Aug 21 - 05:44 PM https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-25222.html Guest @ 02 Aug 21 -03:56 PM That's the script for at least part of the show. The lady's name is Alice Hyatt and your lines are therein quoted. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Felipa Date: 02 Aug 21 - 06:10 PM "bod" means "penis" in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic; it is pronounced like "bud" b?d/ |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Big Al Whittle Date: 03 Aug 21 - 06:05 AM Sort of explains something I never knew. There are references to Uncle Bud in the Paul Whiteman/Bing Crosby/Bix Beiderbecke recording of Mississippi Mud. I suppose it was an 'in' joke that Americans got and we didn't. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: Lighter Date: 03 Aug 21 - 07:04 AM "Bud" is a common Southern U.S. nickname and term of address ("buddy"). I'm quite sure that "bod" has nothing to with it. https://www.openculture.com/2013/03/hear_zora_neale_hurston_sing_the_bawdy_prison_blues_song_uncle_bud_1940.html "The song comes from experiences with the infamous Chief Transfer Agent for the Texas prison system, 'Uncle Bud' Russell, whose dreaded wagon, 'Black Betty,' was possibly the reference for a work song immortalized by Lead belly, no stranger to Texas prisons (Russell also gets a name-check in Lead Belly’s 'Midnight Special')." |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (Bob Miller) From: GUEST,finetunes Date: 29 May 22 - 09:42 PM I'm surprised that it hasn't been mentioned but there is a version written by Bob Miller and recorded by Billy Jones & Tampa Blue Jazz Band (Pseudonym for Joseph Samuels Jazz Band) in 1921 and then again by Leona Williams in 1922. This is the same Bob Miller who wrote many country classics of the 30's - Seven Years with the Wrong Woman, When the White Azaleas Start Blooming, Rocking Alone in an Old Rocking Chair, and Driftwood on the River. Uncle Bud – Tampa Blue Jazz Band version Uncle Bud so they all do tell knows just how to make moonshine well, Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Uncle Bud. When he’s mad why we clear the wall so we’ll have a good place to fall Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Uncle Bud. Uncle Bud sure can step ‘em high, gals all love him just hear them cry Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Uncle Bud. If Mack Sennett saw that gal of mine, I’d own his bathing beach in a little time, Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Uncle Bud. Little drum/drunk Saul?? you’ve waited long, now you’re admired by a waiting throng Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Uncle Bud. McCormack sings well and always will, but my wife’s voice is better still, Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Uncle Bud. Uncle Bud = Leona Williams version Some folks say Uncle Bud is slow but I laugh because I know Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Buddy Bud. He like whiskey he like rye and won’t drink corn cause it’s full of lye, Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Buddy Bud. The sun comes east, the sun sets west, I know who makes moonshine the best Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Buddy Bud. I like coffee, I like tea, I know a man who thinks the world of me Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Buddy Bud. Some folk say he was born a fool but he’s got better sense than manicure a mule Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Bud. . . Uncle Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Buddy Bud. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: GUEST,Hootenanny Date: 30 May 22 - 12:12 PM I believe "Black Betty" was the name used by convicts for the heavy strap with which they were beaten. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (Bob Miller) From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Jun 22 - 06:37 PM From the sheet music at Indiana University: UNCLE BUD / BUGLE BLUES Words and music by Bob Miller VERSE: Now I got a brand-new song And it ain’t so very long. It’s all right but the bass sounds wrong. Now, honey, this is how I started on the verse: I played some blues and it didn’t sound so worse, And then I had it haunt me, Bugle Blues! Yes, it originated down in Tennessee. That’s where they “thunk’d” up blue harmony. That’s why we named this melody Bugle Blues. Now you play this strain again, This jazzy bugle strain ’cause it leads to this odd refrain: CHORUS 1: Uncle Bud is a man in full. Lordy, how he can shoot the bull! Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, Uncle Buddie, Buddie, Buddie, Uncle Bud. CHORUS 2: some folks say Uncle Bud is slow, But I laugh just because I know Uncle Bud, Uncle Bud, Uncle Buddie, Buddie, Buddie, Uncle Bud. EXTRA CHORUSES FOR UNCLE BUD 3. I like whiskey; I like rye. Won’t drink corn ’cause it’s full of lye. 4. A mule is stubborn, will make you curse, But a prohi is even worse. [prohibitionist?] 5. My gal smokes and my gal chews. She’s getting smart readin’ Police Gazette news. 6. Uncle Bud, so they do tell, Knows just how to make moonshine well. 7. Uncle Bud sure can step ’em high. Gals all love him; just hear them cry— 8. When he’s mad, why, we clear the hall So we’ll have a good place to fall. 9. If Mack Sennett saw that gal of mine, I’d own his bathing beach in a little time. 10. McCormack sings well and always will, But my wife’s voice is better still. 11. When it rains, why, we leave it rain That’s what we do in Tennessee. [I don’t understand why this doesn’t rhyme.] 12. Little drug store, you’ve waited long. Now you’re admired by an anxious throng. 13. Moonshine’s daughter just pines in the hill. Don’t you worry; Uncle Bud loves your still. 14. Some folks say I was born a fool, But I got better sense than manicure a mule. 15. You can strut ’em clean to the pole If you got an ace in the hole. 16. Four aces beats a flush; that’s true; But if five naturals show, why, we’re gonna bury you. 17. You say you love me but you want a home. I’m gonna dig you one in some sandy loam. 18. I never hunger till I’m broke, Then I crave a pork chop poultice hanging round my throat. 19. Plead, sweet papa; plead your best. Little mama done found another nest. 20. Stay away from my door. Got another papa; can’t use you no more. 21. As I walked on through the hall, Found another mule in my stall. 22. Corn, white corn, look what you done: Made a little rabbit make the big lion run. 23. Death, O Death, where is thy sting? Sweet smellin’ mama done give back my ring. 24. Skeeter and bumblebee playing seven-up. Skeeter won but is afraid to pick it up. 25. The sun comes east; the sun sets west, But I know who can make moonshine best. 26. Uncle Bud is long and thin, But he’s a good man for the fix he’s in. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 05:49 PM Odell Walker Expurgation in the original typscript. Song from Guy B. Johnson papers, Wilson Library, Chapel Hill. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 06:03 PM O BUD! From "Six New Negro Folk-Songs with Music" by Nicholas Joseph Hutchinson Smith", in Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd: Publications of the Texas Folk-lore Society, Number VII. Edited by J. Frank Dobie |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 05:49 PM Odell Walker Expurgation in the original typscript. Song from Guy B. Johnson papers, Wilson Library, Chapel Hill. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 06:03 PM O BUD! From "Six New Negro Folk-Songs with Music" by Nicholas Joseph Hutchinson Smith", in Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd: Publications of the Texas Folk-lore Society, Number VII. Edited by J. Frank Dobie |
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