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Subject: RE: food songs From: Mrrzy Date: 23 Jan 22 - 11:38 PM Smells like winter at our house, smells like souP! There was just a thread on it. That final P is kinda overpronounced. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Sol Date: 22 Jan 22 - 07:14 AM "Jambalaya" here "Mashed Potato" here "Chocolate Girl" |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Date: 21 Jan 22 - 08:59 PM Can it really be Mudcat has no dedicated chocolate thread? So many songs in D.T.! And since thoroughly modern food songs are already here, try: Baby Metal Gimme Chocolate!. Headphone volume warning. It's loud. Not in English but there are translations available on ytube. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: OH, HOW THAT WOMAN COULD COOK (Kahn/LeBoy From: Jim Dixon Date: 21 Jan 22 - 01:47 PM I became aware of this song by hearing a recording of “An Evening with Groucho” (1972) in which Groucho Marx sang the first verse and chorus, accompanied by Marvin Hamlisch on piano. The following is my transcription from the sheet music, which you can see at Indiana University. You can hear Groucho’s version at YouTube, which also has a more complete and much older version by Maurice Burkhart. The latter recording has quite different lyrics, but it would be difficult to transcribe. OH, HOW THAT WOMAN COULD COOK Words by Gus Kahn, music by Grace Le Boy, ©1914. 1. I once knew a woman who couldn’t spell “cat,” And she was as homely as “cinch.” In winter she always wore last summer’s hat, And a size ‘leven shoe in a pinch. When she played piano, weak women would faint And strong men would cry out in grief, While as for her singing, well, that made you feel That it wasn’t so bad to be “deef.” Yet still, she had company most ev’ry day, And her looks and her voice couldn’t drive them away, For— CHORUS 1: Oh! How that woman could cook! Her bread was like Angel’s Fool’s cake! She could take soup meat and give it a look, And it tasted like tenderhouse steak! Her “Zup” had a flavor like peaches and cream, Her pan-a-cakes, oh! What a beautiful dream! With a table between us, she was pretty like Venus. Ach Gott! How that woman could cook! 2. I once had a meal in a high-toned hotel, Where the waiters was dressed up like dudes. The crock’ry and silver was terrible swell, But I did not care much for the foods. I ordered “Con-soom-me” account of the name. I said I’d be swell when in doubt. It made me quite crazy to find when it came, It was soup with the filling left out! When I paid the waiter, I said: “Here’s a tip: When you’re hungry to my friend’s house just take a trip, For— CHORUS 2: Oh! How that woman could cook! I could not prescribe it to you! She had receipts which was not in no book, And what nobody else ever knew! She made “Vegetabubbles” like never before, And you “et” and you “et” till you couldn’t no more! And her “Eysters” and fishes was simply delicious, Ach Gott! How that woman could cook! CHORUS 3: Oh! How that woman could cook! I tell you the words won’t come out! She made a pie called a plum pudding cake And it simply would melt in your mouth! Her strudels with noodles would just make you weep, And when you drank her coffee, your feet fell asleep! While her liver and onions would cure corns and bunions, Ach Gott! How that woman could cook! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,James Phillips Date: 27 Feb 21 - 06:09 PM Brose and Butter |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Donuel Date: 27 Feb 21 - 10:04 AM My favorite food song is Thats why you're overwieght https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEXggWES7Fc |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 26 Feb 21 - 08:40 PM I am still wondering about a food song ... the title of an album by the backwoods string band... "feed your Babies Onions" i think the next line was "so you can find them at night" but I cannot find this song anywhere, only the title on an album that does not even include the song....any clues??? |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 26 Feb 21 - 08:39 PM and 2012 show..... thanksgiving (see previous 2 posts for more info) Tom Russell / Bowl of Red / Heart on a Sleeve / Bear Family Records Sweet Potato Pie / Roly Poly / Brand New Day / Mountain Fever Records Dave Van Ronk / One Meat Ball / title Song / Appleseed Records Tom Paxton, Anne Hills, Bob Gibson / Bottle of Wine / see above Debi Smith, Doc Watson / Pie / see above 16:15 Chuck McCabe / Meats in a Can / Creatures of Habit in a World of Change / Scuppernong 20:30 Chuck McCabe / Holidaze / see above Lance Brown / Kitchen Blues / Too Busy to Work / www.lancetunes.com "Uncle" Dave Osterreich / Beans, Bacon and Gravy / Mudcat Sampler / Blue Plate Special 31:00 Yvonne Hollenbeck / Bachelor Junk Food / Sorting Time / Dorian Buttes Pub. 35:18 Joe Craven / Hot Turkey / Camptown / Acorn Music 37:05 Faith Petric / Highway Hunter / When Did We Have Sauerkraut? / Center Records 41:49 " " / Idaho Spud / see above 44:55 " " / Title Song / see above 47:40 Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer / Orange Cocoa Cake / Parent's Home Companion / Rounder 51:16 Rail Road Earth / Livin' the Good Life / Title Song / Sugar Hill 54:20 Greg Brown / Canned Goods / Prairie Home Companion 1983 / 1:00:00 Peter Cooper and L.G. / Mamma Bake a Pie / The Lloyd Green Album / Red Beet Records 1:02:15 Ellis Paul / The Star in the Apple / Dragon Fly Races / Black Wolf Records / 1:06:32 Readings from several Farmer's Almanacs by Laurel 1:08:00 Background music by Clare Milliner and Walt Koken / Cookhouse Joe / Mudthumper Kate Campbell / Pans of Biscuits (Bowls of Gravy) / Blues and Lamentations 1:21:08 " " / Corn in a Box / Monuments / Large River Music / 1:25:00 Dana and Susan Robinson / A-Z Farmer's Market / American Hornpipe / Threshold Music 1:28:15 James Reams & The Barnstormers / Cornbread, Molasses, and Sassafras Tea / One foot in the Honky Tonk / Mountain Redbird Music 1:32:00 Flatlanders / Eggs of Your Chickens / Wheel of Fortune / New West 1:33:45 Greg Brown / Out in the Country / Prairie Home Companion 1986 1:37:15 Katie Lee / Ballad of Alfred Packer / Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle / Katydid Music 1:42:00 John Walker / Red Beans & Rice / NE Tall Grass Sampler / Prairie Dog Mus. 1:45:19 Craig Werth / Zucchini Surprise / The Spokes Man / SELF 1:50:15 Ann Hills and David Roth / Rhubarb Trees / Title Song / Wind River Music 1:52:37 Connie Kaldor / Okanagan Peaches / Postcards from the Road / Word of Mouth 1:55:50 Fiddlestix / The Beer Song / Live at the Conservatory of Music, Stockton, CA / SELF 1:58:30 Ian Tyson and Nanci Griffith / Canadian Whiskey / Wounded Heart of America, Tom Russell Songs / High Tone Records 2:03:52 Water Tower Bucket Boys / Tequila and Lime / Sole Kitchen / Monkey Trench Studios 2:07:23 Dandelion Wine / Miss V Gypsy Cowgirl / Range Rider, Songs of the Trail / Self (Eagle) 2:11:45 David Grisman and Jerry Garcia / Drink Up and Go Home / Been All Around This World / Acoustic Disc 2:15:39 Whiskey Before Breakfast / Huckleberry Flint / Pillowfort |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 26 Feb 21 - 08:36 PM Here are the food songs from my 2013 November radio show XRDS 2013-11-23 GRATEFUL AND ALIVE Giving thanks in November. Played Title Album Artist Label 2:55pm, 11-23-2013 Salty Dog Blue Sky Boys Blue Sky Boys 2:55pm, 11-23-2013 title song Water From Another Time John McCutcheon 2:41pm, 11-23-2013 Whittlin' Boy Twilight the Taj Mahal David Massengill 2:39pm, 11-23-2013 title song From the Pasture to the Future The Waybacks 2:38pm, 11-23-2013 Home From TN, and Mexico Knee Deep in Mossy Creek Mossy Creek 2:30pm, 11-23-2013 Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Si Kahn et al 2:21pm, 11-23-2013 The Old Cross Road Way Out West Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen 2:18pm, 11-23-2013 Girl at the Crossroads Bar Almost Acoustic Jerry Garcia Band 2:15pm, 11-23-2013 Bright Morning Stars Ragged But Right Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band 2:06pm, 11-23-2013 Left Out in the Cold Dirty Kitchen Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen 2:02pm, 11-23-2013 Harvest Harvest Kathy Chiavola 1:51pm, 11-23-2013 Wheat Field Annie Flip City Ranch Romance 1:49pm, 11-23-2013 Bloody Mary Morning To All the Girls Willie Nelson , Wynonna Judd 1:46pm, 11-23-2013 Headlights and Hubcaps Headlights and Hubcaps Make it So 1:38pm, 11-23-2013 Happy American Solstice We The People Lou Dominguez 1:34pm, 11-23-2013 Midnite on H2O, Bonaparte's Retreat Long Time Comin' Vi Wickham 1:27pm, 11-23-2013 Long Story Short Copper and Coal Copper and Coal 1:25pm, 11-23-2013 Killing the Blues Raising Sand Robert Plant Alison Krauss 1:22pm, 11-23-2013 Settled Down LIke Rain Hollywood Town Hall Jayhawks 1:21pm, 11-23-2013 Daddy's Little Girl Bryndle Bryndle 1:20pm, 11-23-2013 River of Stone Bryndle Bryndle 1:19pm, 11-23-2013 No Time To Cry My Life Iris Dement 1:18pm, 11-23-2013 Let the Mystery Be Infamous Angel Iris Dement 1:17pm, 11-23-2013 Brother Warrior Song and Sigh Dan Schatz |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 26 Feb 21 - 08:34 PM For over a decade I hosted a radio show. On Thanksgiving, I always produced a 2-hour segment that featured songs about food (and drink) I will see if I can find a playlist of one or more of those shows. Right now the first song to come to mind is by the recently deceased Peter Ostroushko ... B O R S C H T. a song about beet soup. (it is in the Mudcat database) Here are the songs I played in 2014 on the Crossroads show KROV-FM A Cornucopia Of Food – You Are What You Eat – krov.fm Thanksgiving show – You Are What You Eat – A Cornucopia of Food Who Will Watch the Home Place – Blackberry Winter – In These Ozark Hills – Self Woodsmoke and Oranges – James Keelaghan – Home – Appleseed Ol' Cook Pot – The Duhks – Migrations – Sugar Hill Records Old Dan Tucker – Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum – Guest House – Hightone Working on the Food Chain – Mark Graham – Natural Selections – Self Good Fish Chowder – Debra Cowan – Among Friends – Muzzy House Potato – Cheryl Wheeler – Greetings From: Cheryl Wheeler Live Pop-Tarts & Spam – Cheryl Wheeler – Greetings From: Cheryl Wheeler Live Down on the Farm – Steve Wacker – Shadows and Grace – Wacker Words and Music Corn Bread Nation – Tim O'Brien – Title Song Collard Greens – Patrick Sylvest – A Little Less Louisiana – Self Shortnin' Bread – Ron Block – Walking Song – Rounder Don't Leave the Farm – Martha Burns – Old-Time Songs – Self Some Little Bug and Whiskey Seller – Martha Burns – Old-Time Songs – Self A Cherry With No Stone – Stolen Thyme – Time Is Possibility – Blackbeard’s Fiddle Music Roly Poly – Cow Bop – Cowlifornia Swing – B4Manmusic I'm Puttin' All My Eggs in One Basket – Carolyn Martin – Java Jive Blackjack Supper Club – Trout Steak Revival – Flight – Self Diner in the Sky – The Amigos – Title Song – self Spoon – Dehlia Low – Tellico – Caught by a Train Almanac Readings – Laurel Come on in My Kitchen – Kristina Olsen Live From Around the World – Philo Methodist Pie – Tom Paley Applesauce – Christopher Smith – Sweet River Grace – Small Time Production Ground Hog – Wild Mountaineers String Band – Live at Paradise Gold Nugget Museum The Caldera / The Silver Spork – Three Bean Salad – Reels and Fakes – Self NaCl *(salt) – Kate and Anna McGarrigle – The McGarrigle Hour – Rykodisc Sugar Enough for Me – Jack Williams – Four Good Days Gingerbread man – The Border Band – It's a Short Life – Wolf Dog Studio |
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Subject: Lyr Add: PICKLE IN THE MIDDLE (And the Mustard on From: Jim Dixon Date: 25 Feb 21 - 05:38 PM My mother used to quote this to me! I never heard her sing more than the first 2 lines. So I was thrilled when I ran across this today. I did my best to transcribe it, but there are still a few gaps. I couldn’t find any other source. PICKLE IN THE MIDDLE (And the Mustard on Top) Words and music by John Tackaberry and Carl Sigman. As recorded by The Four King Sisters with Buddy Cole and his Orchestra, on RCA Victor 20-1903-A, 1946, as heard at the Internet Archive. Pickle in the middle with the mustard on top, Just the way I like ‘em an’ they’re all red hot, Tasty little hot dog, toasted right, With a bark as tender as its bite. Ev’rybody’s happy and the laughter runs high, Till the sun gets pickled in the sauerkraut sky, Plus a little raindrop when you’ve got Pickle in the middle, Sizzlin’ off the griddle, Pickle in the middle and the mustard on top. The peanut man, the ice-cream man, Shout their wares like nobody can; Like nobody can except one man: Favorite funny old frankfurter man. Red hot! red hot! Red-hots are all he’s got. Pickle in the middle and the mustard on top. I could eat a bushel but my tummy says stop. You may laugh at frankfurters and their sort, But you’ll find one in the Supreme Court. Never hear the vendor shoutin’ “turkey” or “duck,” Still I bet they end up with a million bucks. Leavin’ that dog dry(?) in their shop, Pickle in the center, Summer or the winter, Pickle in the center with the mustard on top. [Instrumental break] Red hot! red hot! Red-hots are all he’s got. Pickle in the middle and the mustard on top, Just the way you like it with a bottle of pop. Eat ‘em at the circus ... They’re out there … at a baseball game. Shouldn’t have to worry ‘bout the number you ate. You can get a bottle of bicarbonate. You will have more ulcers than you’ve got. Pickle in the middle, Sizzlin’ off the griddle, Pickle in the middle with the mustard on the top. [Louis Prima also recorded this in 1946, on Majestic 7179 A, but he omitted some of the above lyrics. The catch phrase that the song is based on was introduced by Artie Auerbach, a comedian who appeared regularly on the Jack Benny Program, and the song was written later.] |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,Kenny B Date: 07 Apr 19 - 06:08 PM Tuna the food of my Soul - Tune - Whispering Hope Sung by Jean Redpath & Garrison Keillor |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Mrrzy Date: 07 Apr 19 - 04:00 PM Koberoxu... The Nutshell Library. I still have mine. Pierre, Alligators All Around, and One Was Johnny were the other 3. Why O why, to get back to the thread, has Johnny McAdoo not been listed? Or is that an eating song rather than a food song? He swallered tripe and lard by the yard, he did. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Joe_F Date: 06 Apr 19 - 06:59 PM Dried Apple Pies I forget who sings this, but it does have a tune. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Donuel Date: 06 Apr 19 - 05:16 PM My fav is "That is why you're overweight" |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: FreddyHeadey Date: 03 Apr 19 - 05:52 PM (cold)COWD STRINGY PIE Over in Yorkshire, a farmer do dwell And they call 'im Yaddy 'ughes, ... thread.cfm?threadid=36152#497461 |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SOME CALL IT SODA (John C. Bunnell) From: John C. Bunnell Date: 15 Mar 19 - 04:28 AM I am minded to offer a lyric of my own to the ongoing thread (there is no recorded version, but I do know that East Coast filker Mark Mandel has performed a version with at least one adapted verse). Note that the refrain is one of those where the second half changes with every verse, indicated by the lines given in parentheses -- and that every brand name and flavor mentioned actually exist, or at least have existed.) SOME CALL IT SODA words: John C. Bunnell © 2000 music: traditional (“Sweet Betsy From Pike”) You begin with plain water, as clear as you might, Then flavor and sweeten until it tastes right; With CO2 bubbles this mixture infuse, and you’ll have a bev’rage that few can refuse. REFRAIN: Now some call it soda, and some call it pop, And some cannot drink it, and some cannot stop; (With cherry fudge cola white grape lemon-lime, You’re sure to find something you like, given time.) Now first came the colas, with sugar and spice; The taste, it was bracing, the fizz, it was nice; Though one little tidbit is hard to explain: That once classic Coke got its kick from cocaine. (Squirt Dr. Brown’s Bubble-Up Canada Dry; You’re sure to find something you like, if you try.) The flavors of citrus are frequently found, As sure as the orange and grapefruit are round; If lemon-lime bores you, then try tangerine, Perhaps Mello Yello, or something in green. (With green apple celery kiwi root beer, It’s certain that something you like will appear.) The spices in soda are sometimes obscure (What is sarsaparilla? I’m really not sure); The roots in my root beer I fear I don’t know; As for Dr. Pepper – no, there let’s not go. (Since Mr. Pibb Sunkist Tab Jones Minute Maid, It’s certain that something you like is displayed.) If sugar’s off limits, we’ve still drinks for you, With saccharine, Splenda, and NutraSweet too; Just fill up your beaker and cheerfully swig – But try not to think of the words “guinea pig”. (With passion fruit bubble gum almond cream peach, You’re sure to find something you like within reach.) Now some folk use soft drinks to keep them awake; The sodas taste better than pills they might take; For true sleep avoidance, the choice must be Jolt – The cola so strong it makes rattlesnakes molt! (On Green River Mountain Dew Schweppe’s Diet Rite, You’re sure to find something you like within sight.) Much more could I tell you, and someday I might, But if I tried now, I’d be singing all night; Suffice that there’s more in that can than you think – And now that I’m finished, I sure need a drink! (With strawberry fufu ginseng ginger ale, It’s certain that something you like is for sale.) //// |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: keberoxu Date: 14 Mar 19 - 12:18 PM Thank you Jim Dixon: "Chicken Soup with Rice" was a Maurice Sendak book marketed to the very youngest of children -- so young, that the book would have to be read to them by somebody old enough to read. I can see the little drawings now. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: FreddyHeadey Date: 12 Mar 19 - 07:51 PM written by Carole Prior: a humorous look at what constitutes the Scottish diet with the "strapline" - "The Nation that was built on OATS!" https://youtu.be/-Yju71UvxxQ?t=6m30s Keith Festival 2017 |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Mo the caller Date: 08 Feb 19 - 08:33 AM Well, Bert beat me (by several years) with Found a Peanut. But I don't think anyone has mentioned "Life is but a Meloncholy Flower" repeated several times to the tune Frere Jaque On the page it doesn't look like a food song, but try singing it. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: GREEN ONION TOP (Roosevelt Sykes) From: Jim Dixon Date: 07 Feb 19 - 12:02 PM I almost put this in the thread called Lyr Req: Onion Songs, but since it mentions and praises several other foods, I figured it would be a better fit here. You can hear this at the Internet Archive: GREEN ONION TOP Written & recorded by Roosevelt Sykes, 1951. Pig tails and sauerkraut Make your belly stick way out. Dig the pig with solid bop. Don’t be green like a onion top. Slipp’ry okra and collard greens, Best stuff that you ever seen. Slide the okra with a solid bop. Don’t be green like a onion top. Pickled pepper, sliced tomatoes, Oh, boys, what a plate! Lemonade, slice of pie, Hurry, hurry, don’t be late. Boiled corn and lima beans, Best dish that you ever seen. Dig the corn with solid bop, And don’t be green like a onion top. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SANDWICHES ARE BEAUTIFUL (Bob King) From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 12 Nov 17 - 07:53 AM It's wonderful to scroll through old threads like this and see beloved late-lamented Mudcatters, from Spaw to Sandy Paton. I can't believe this one didn't make the list: Sandwiches Are Beautiful SANDWICHES ARE BEAUTIFUL Bob King CHORUS: Sandwiches are beautiful; sandwiches are fine. I like sandwiches; I eat them all the time. I eat them for my supper; I eat them for my lunch, And if I had a hundred sandwiches, I'd eat them all at once! 1. A-roamin' and a-travelling and wanderin' along, And if you care to listen to me I will sing a happy song. I will not ask a favour; I will not ask a fee, But if you have yourself a sandwich, won't you give a bite to me? 2. Once I went to England and visited the Queen! I swear she was the grandest lady that I've ever seen. I told her she was beautiful and could not ask for more. She handed me a sandwich and she threw me out the door! CHORUS 3. Once I knew a pretty girl, the fairest in the land. All the young men in the county, they were asking for her hand. They?d offer her the moon and they would offer her the sea, But I offered her a sandwich and she said she'd marry me. 4. Now a sandwich may be egg or cheese or even peanut butter, But they all taste so good to me it really doesn't matter. Jam or ham or cucumber, just any kind will do, But I like sandwiches; how about YOU?! CHORUS Repeat CHORUS |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Joe_F Date: 11 Nov 17 - 08:09 PM Another watermelon song: Just plant a watermelon on my grave And let the juice [slurp] run thru. Just plant a watermelon on my grave -- That's all I ask of you. Now a chicken or a duck or a turkey may be fine, But nothing could be sweeter than a watermelon rind, So just plant a watermelon on my grave And let the juice [slurp] run thru. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE WAR IN SNIDER'S GROCERY STORE From: Jim Dixon Date: 10 Nov 17 - 08:08 PM Today I went to see the "WW1 America" exhibit at the Minnesota History Center (which will soon go on tour), and one of the things I discovered there was this remarkable novelty song, where various foods represent nations at war. The following lyrics are from the sheet music at the The University of Illinois at Chicago. You can hear it at YouTube sung by Billy Murray, Ian Whitcomb, or Bob Michel. THE WAR IN SNIDER'S GROCERY STORE Words and music by Hank Hancock, Ballard Macdonald, & Harry Carroll, 1914. 1. Hans Gustav Snider, A local provider Of groceries, canned goods and such, Had read of the war, Till himself and the store Were both what is known as "in Dutch." His brains he'd been feeding On so much war reading, He woke up one night in a fright. He rushed down the stairs, Fell over two chairs, And turned up the groc'ry store light. CHORUS: There were eggshells bursting near and far, Above the Russian caviar. A Bismark herring by itself Was pushing all the French peas off the shelf. An Irish potato started to cry When a Spanish onion hit its eye? Frankfurters fighting all over the floor, Howling and growling: "We're the dogs of war!" There was "Sunny Jim," upon a horse, Swooping down with all his "Force." The paprika, Growing weaker, Shouted out: "Won't you open that door?" And a couple of tough Vienna rolls, Shot a poor Swiss cheese all full of holes, In the terrible war in Snider's groc'ry store. 2. Dutch pumpernickel Had joined a dill pickle, Attacking the fresh navy beans. A Limburger cheese Greatly strengthened the breeze, And anchovies, prunes and sardines Were fighting an army Of dago salami, And that's only half what he saw. He jumped into bed, Put ice on his head, And went on the wagon once more. CHORUS |
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Subject: Lyr Add: FOOD BLUES (The Corries) From: Jim Dixon Date: 11 May 17 - 09:46 PM This was mentioned by GUEST,ozmacca back on 16-May-2002: FOOD BLUES As recorded by The Corries on "Flower of Scotland" (2009) I was sittin' in the motorway restaurant When the waiter came up; he said: "What do you want?" I looked at the menu; it looked so nice Till he said: "Let me give you some advice. "Spaghetti and taters they got too much starch. Pork chop and gravy are bad for your heart. "There's hormones in chicken and beef and veal. Ravioli is a dead man's meal. "Bread's got preservatives, nitrates in ham, Artificial coloring in jellies and jams. "Stay away from doughnuts; run away from pie. Pepperoni pizza's a sure way to die. "Sugar rots your teeth and makes you put on weight. Artificial sweetners got cyclamates. "Eggs got cholesterol; there's fat in cheese. Coffee ruins your kidneys; so does tea. "Fish's got mercury; red meat is poison. Salt's goin' to send your blood pressure risin'. "Hot dog and salami got deadly red dyes. Vegetables and fruits are sprayed with pesticides." I said: "What can I eat that's gonna make me last?" He said: "A small drink of water in a tiny wee glass." Then he stopped and he thought for a minute. "Never mind the water; there's carcinogenics in it." I got up from the table, walked out into the street, Realizin' there was nothin' I could eat. Ain't eaten for a month but I'm feelin' fine, 'Cause he did not mention beer, whisky and red, red wine. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: TEXAS COOKIN' (Guy Clark) From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 May 17 - 07:10 PM This was mentioned by Roger in Baltimore and an unnamed guest: TEXAS COOKIN' As recorded by Guy Clark on "Texas Cookin'" (1976) I'm going down to Austin, Texas. I'm going down to save my soul, Get that barbecue and chili, Eat my fill, and come back home. I'm gonna take my baby with me. We gonna have a high ol' time. We gonna eat till we get silly. Sho' do make a beer taste fine. CHORUS: Oh, my, mama, ain't that Texas cookin' somethin'? Oh, my, mama, it'll stop yo' belly and backbone from bumpin'. Oh, my, mama, ain't that Texas cookin' good? Oh, my, mama, eat it ever' day if I could. I know a man that cook armadillo. Tastes so sweet he called it pie. I know a woman makes pan dulce. Tastes so good it gets you high. Get them enchiladas greasy. Get them steaks chicken fried. Sho' do make a man feel happy To see white gravy on the side. CHORUS I know a place that got fried okra. Beat anything that I ever saw. I know a man that cook cabrito. It must be against the law We gonna get a big ol' sausage, A big ol' plate o' ranch-style beans. I could eat the heart of Texas. We gonna need some brand-new jeans. CHORUS |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE PIZZA SONG (Trish Santer) From: Tattie Bogle Date: 13 Apr 17 - 07:30 PM Closely followed by my Pizza song, which arose out of a wee family disagreement, when my daughter wanted to give her friends that pizza that had had been languishing in the freezer far too long, and Dad said no! THE PIZZA SONG Trish Santer - Oct 2002 Chorus Well, you can't eat that pizza, 'cos it's mine, I bought it for a very special reason, There ain't another pizza quite like it in the world, So leave it in that freezer just a-freezin'. I went to Tesco's Friday 9 p.m., I waited for the girl with the stickers and the marker pen, When she marked that pizza down to less than half a crown I had the very best bargain in the end. Chorus It may be just a simple Margarita, But I have plans to make it taste much sweeter, With a full tin of anchovies, and half a pound of stovies, And pepperoni, cheese and more tomater. Chorus I'm saving it for after the theater, We won't have time to eat till so much later, It's then when we're both starving, that pizza we'll be halving, So tonight you'd better have a baked potater. Chorus So now it's at the bottom of the freezer, Where maybe it could be forgot for ever, But in a year or two, when it's perma-frosted through, I'll be so glad I kept that bargain pizza. Chorus |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Tattie Bogle Date: 13 Apr 17 - 07:23 PM Only nearly 3 years since I said I might post it later! (Recipe included!) JANET'S STOVIES © Trish Santer 20.10.06. For my friend Janet Weatherston, who makes such superlative stovies. Chorus Janet's stovies are the best We lo'e them abune the rest, But we ha'e only ane request, Bring us a plate o' stovies. Slice yer onions nice and thin Fry them gently, then throw in Loads o' tatties wi'oot skin, You've started makkin' stovies. Salt and pepper tae your taste, Scraps o' meat ye neednae waste, Cannae be in awfy haste When yer makkin' stovies. Mak' them in yer muckle pot Dinnae ha'e the ring ower hot, Let them sweat until ye've got A gey guid pan o' stovies. Stovies ayeways fill ye up Skoosh them in a plate or cup, Dinnae bide, jest serve us up Oor Janet's hamely stovies. She mak's them for the Christmas ceilidh, Tops them aff wi' sprigs o' holly, You micht think that awfy silly, Daein' that wi' stovies. When Burns supper cam's aroond, In the kitchen she'll be foond, Haggis, neeps and tatties roond, But ye cannae beat her stovies. Of stovie-makkin' she's the master, Better than a bowl o' pasta, Mak's the eightsome reel gae faster Efter Janet's stovies. Never gi'e ye constipation, Ideal form of regulation Maybe too much information, But that's why we tak' stovies. Final chorus: Stovies, stovies, stovies, stovies,(x3) We lo'e Janet's stovies. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN (Hank Penny) From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 Apr 17 - 02:45 PM SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN Written by Jack Aberth, Jack Davis, & Tennessee Williams (!) As recorded by Hank Penny, 1956. SPOKEN: You know they tell me the shortest way to a man's heart is through his stomach, And woman, if you listen, I got a few shortcuts fer ye, by doggies! 1. Now southern fried chicken, good hot biscuits like my mama used to make, Good hot biscuits smothered in gravy—that's what really takes the cake. I love you, darlin', but my heart is in my mouth, And you gotta make fried chicken like my mama makes down south. CHORUS: I love you, darlin', like I love that good fried chicken, And good hot buttered biscuits like my mama makes down south. 2. Now, baby, if you really love me and you want to be my wife, You'd better practice up on your cookin' cause mine's a hungry life. Be like my mama; put some coffee in the pot, And fry me a lot o' that chicken, and keep them biscuits hot. 3. Now you'd better look out there, little darlin', 'cause I know that chicken's hot. If it won't fit into a skillet, then you'd better go get a pot. I like your cookin' and I want you to be mine. Your biscuits taste like mama's and that chicken sure is fine. [Not to be confused with another song by the same title, recorded by Jimmy Work. I classified that one as a train song.] |
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Subject: Lyr Add: CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE (Carole King) From: Jim Dixon Date: 30 Mar 17 - 08:19 PM CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE Words by Maurice Sendak, music by Carole King As recorded by Carole King on "Really Rosie" (1975) In January, it's so nice, While slippin' on the slidin' ice, To sip hot chicken soup with rice, Sippin' once, sippin' twice, Sippin' chicken soup with rice. In February, it will be My snowman's anniversary, With cake for him and soup for me, Happy once, happy twice, Happy chicken soup with rice. In March, the wind blows down the door And spills my soup upon the floor. It laps it up and roars for more, Blowin' once, blowin' twice, Blowin' chicken soup with rice. In April, I will go away To far off Spain or old Bombay, And dream about hot soup all day, Oh my once, oh my twice, Oh my chicken soup with rice. In May, I truly think it best To be a robin lightly dressed, Concoctin' soup inside my nest. Mix it once, mix it twice. Mix that chicken soup with rice. In June, I saw a charming group Of roses all begin to droop. I pepped them up with chicken soup: Sprinkle once, sprinkle twice, Sprinkle chicken soup with rice. In July, I'll take a peep Into the cool and fishy deep, Where chicken soup is selling cheap, Sellin' once, sellin' twice, Sellin' chicken soup with rice. In August, it will be so hot, I will become a cooking pot, Cooking soup, of course, why not? Cookin' once, cookin' twice, Cookin' chicken soup with rice. In September, for a while, I will ride a crocodile Down the chicken soupy Nile. Paddle once, paddle twice, Paddle chicken soup with rice. In October, I'll be host To witches, goblins and a ghost. I'll serve them chicken soup on toast. Whoopee, once! Whoopee twice! Whoopee chicken soup with rice! In November's gusty gale, I will flop my flippy tail, And spout hot soup; I'll be a whale, Spoutin' once, spoutin' twice, Spoutin' chicken soup with rice. In December, I will be A baubled, bangled Christmas tree, With soup bowls draped all over me. Merry once, merry twice, Merry chicken soup with— Merry chicken soup with— Merry chicken soup with rice. I told you once, I told you twice: All seasons of the year are nice For eating chicken soup, Eating chicken soup with rice; Chicken soup, chicken soup with rice. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: RAD GUMBO (from Little Feat) From: Jim Dixon Date: 30 Mar 17 - 07:00 PM RAD GUMBO As recorded by Little Feat on "The Best of Little Feat" (2006) If you walk right in off the street, You can take the load right off your feet. Mama'll bring a menu to your seat, But the bill of fare be short an' sweet. Won't find no étouffé. Mama never ever could cook that way. She's all ancien regime, No nouvelle cuisine. She cookin' gumbo, A mighty rad gumbo. It's the only way she can go Down at the Club Rad Gumbo. Heads and shells stay in the stock. She stirs her roux and really rocks. One gallon shellfish stock or water. Man, this gumbo is made to order! Two toes of garlic finely chopped. Man, this party just can't be stopped! Mama's pots are boilin', band starts to blow, Piano keys flyin' like a Fats Domino. She cookin' gumbo, A mighty rad gumbo. It's the only way she can go, Down at the Club Rad Gumbo. Oh, no, no escargot, no cordon bleu. This ain't the place to go lookin' for beef stew, But if you like a tender shrimp and rice, If you think you can stand the spice, She cooks a gumbo, A mighty rad gumbo. Now the people come from miles around To dig what Mama's puttin' down. Ever'body knows her name. She in the Seafood Hall of Fame. I gotta get that recipe If it means the death of me. Get my spy-boy to sneak a look In Mama's book. She cookin' gumbo, A mighty rad gumbo. It's the only way she can go, Down at the Club Rad Gumbo. She cookin' gumbo. It's a mighty rad gumbo. It's the only way she can go, Down at the Club Rad Gumbo. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: PIG MEAT MAMA (Mae Glover) From: Jim Dixon Date: 19 Dec 16 - 07:11 PM PIG MEAT MAMA As recorded by Mae Glover, 1929. I'm a pig meat mama; pig meat's all I crave. (2x) Pig meat's gonna carry me, carry me to my grave. (yodel) Some women like their pork chops; some women like their wine. (2x) But I'm a pig meat mama; give it to me all the time. (yodel) I got pig meat in Texas, pig meat in Tennessee. (2x) My pig meat in Virginia, Lord, he's wild about me. (yodel) [I want to] Tell all you women what you better do. (2x) You better lay off my pig meat, or it won't be good for you. (yodel) [It's] Pig meat for breakfast, pig meat when I'm in bed. (2x) If I don't get my pig meat, Lord, I'd rather be dead. (yodel) |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MEAT CUTTER BLUES From: Jim Dixon Date: 19 Dec 16 - 04:55 PM MEAT CUTTER BLUES I. As recorded by Roosevelt Sykes with St. Louis Bessie (Bessie Mae Smith), 1930. I been … all day; ain't had a bite to eat. Walkin' the street … for a butcher to cut my meat. Now it's night; still lookin' for a butcher to cut my meat. 'Cause I cannot sleep till I get a butcher to cut my meat. I want you cut my bacon and grind my sausage, too. (2x) You's a real good meat cutter an' you know just how to do. I want you to cut my liver, chop my ribs, and cut my steak. (2x) Ev'ry time I think about you, it make my poor heart ache. I've had a fire in my range an' water in my pot. (2x) You ain't cut my meat yet, an' my range is still gettin' hot. If you can't cut my meat, I'll get a butcher from way downtown. (2x) But my range is still heatin' an' my damper need turnin' down. Mm-mm, [mister] butcher please cut my meat. (2x) I been standing here all day long, beggin' you to cut my meat. II. As recorded by Kansas Joe McCoy, 1934. I'm th'old meat cutter; babe, I can cut your meat. Anything in(?) a lot o' trimmin', I can do it so nice an' neat. I can grind your sausage; I can cut your pork chop too. I can do any kind o' cuttin' [you] want ol' Joe to do. I can slice your bacon; I can cut your ham. I'm th'only cutter right out o' Alabam'. Now bring me my cleaver an' my ol' butcher knife. While(?) some low-down rascal sure done cut my wife. Now listen here, babe; oh, please don't be no fool. Some o' these ol' meat cutters will use you as a tool. Now come in here, babe; let me look on(?) your ham. I'm th'old meat cutter an' I sure don't give a dozen(?).* I got a brand-new knife and I grind it on my stone. When I go to cut your meat, I can cut it to the bone. [* McCoy substitutes a non-rhyming word for the expected "damn" ] III. As recorded by Peetie Wheatstraw, 1936. I been walkin' all day, walkin' up an' down the street. (2x) I'm gon' put you out of a job, whoo, well, well, then I want to chop somebody's meat. [Said] I want to cut your bacon, mama; grind your sausage, too. And then I'm a good meat cutter; whoo! Well, well, babe, I know just what to do. I can cut your liver, [and] chop your ribs, mama, and I can cut your steak. Because now you know I'm a good butcher, whoo! Well, then again, you know I know just what it takes. [I said] I keep fire in my range and hot water in my pot. (2x) Well, I keep this water boilin', whoo! Well, well, mama, and it steams really hot. Whoo-hoo, well, well, mama, let me cut your meat. (2x) Well, well, I been walkin' the streets all day, whoo! Well, well, like a policeman on his beat. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: STEW MEAT BLUES (Lucille Bogan) From: Jim Dixon Date: 19 Dec 16 - 09:04 AM In a lot of old blues songs, food has a double meaning. STEW MEAT BLUES As recorded by Lucille Bogan, 1935. A man say I had something looked like new. He wanted me to credit him for some o' my stew. Say he's goin' up the river, tryin' to sell his sack. He would pay me for my stuff when the boat get back. Now you can go on up the river, man, and sell your sack. You can pay me for my stew when the boat get back. I got good stew and it's got to be sold. The price ain't high, I want to get you told. Go on up the river, man, and sell your sack. There'll be stew-meat here, baby, when the boat get back. Now look here, man: what you want me to do? Give you my stew-meat and credit you too? You go on up the river, try an' sell your sack, 'Cause I'll have my stew-meat here when that boat gets back. I credit one man; it was to my sorrow. It's cash today, credit tomorrow. So hurry up the river, baby, an' try to sell your sack. It's gonna be meat here, when that boat get back. Now it's ashes to ashes, dust to dust. You try my stuff one time, you can't get enough. So go on up the river, man, and sell your sack, 'Cause the stuff'll be here, baby when the boat get back. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LET ONIONS BE From: beardedbruce Date: 16 Dec 16 - 02:29 PM Let Onions Be Come all you who would be flatter Raise your forks and pass the platter For to live is to grow fatter While we are together. cho: Let onions be in all our stews Let all our stews be made with wine We show them all just how to dine We'll end each meal with chocolate. Right fol de rol de ri too ra li do Right fol de rol de ri too ra li do Right fol de rol de ri too ra li do While we are together. Eating and drinking are quite charming Cakes and ice cream there's no harm in All these things we take delight in While we are together. Grab the platter as it passes Join with us at all repasses Those who diet are but asses While we are together. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MEAT MAN PETE (Monette Moore) From: Jim Dixon Date: 16 Dec 16 - 02:21 PM MEAT MAN PETE As recorded by Monette Moore, 1924. Did you ever hear 'bout Pete? Just Pete, plain Pete. He had a market down the street. Pete was a dealer in meat. Ask anybody you meet About Pete, and they'll repeat: His ways are sure a mess, But his meat is always fresh. [§] All the butchers, how they envy Pete, 'Cause ev'rybody's crazy about his meat. They hang around his store And gang right in his door. One thing sure: I know that Pete don't cheat. People come from down in Alabam' 'Cause they've heard about his boneless ham. They never get enough Because his meat ain't tough, And ev'rybody's crazy about his meat. [§§] Once he was dealin' in wood, And bus'ness wasn't so good, And he started dealin' in ice, But things didn't turn out nice, So he took it in his head, Commenced sellin' bread, But bus'ness was complete When he started dealin' in meat. [REPEAT FROM § TO §§.] [Barbecue Bob (1928) and Vance Dixon (1931) each made recordings that seem to be derived from this version.] |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Felipa Date: 16 Dec 16 - 07:19 AM Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake has already been mentioned, but I thought I'd remind you due to the season that's in it. all the songs that came immediately to my mind have already been mentioned by people who got to this thread earlier. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: RED BEANS AND RICE (Kokomo Arnold) From: Jim Dixon Date: 16 Dec 16 - 12:43 AM RED BEANS AND RICE As recorded by Kokomo Arnold, 1937. When I was down in Georgia, I was doin' mighty well. (2x) Since I been here in Chicago, I been catchin' a bit o' hell. Said I'm goin' down to the station; ain't gon' take no one's advice. (2x) Said I'm goin' back to Georgia where I can get my red beans and rice. Now these Chicago women have give me such a hard way to go. (2x) Said they done took all my black(?) money and they got me runnin' from do' to do'. Now I'm just settin' here lookin', way down on that lonesome road. (2x) Says I'm raggedy and I'm hungry, and I ain't got no place to go. Now I been rollin', I been rollin' from sun to sun. (2x) Ever' time I can't get no lovin', … my payday comes. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: RED BEANS AND RICE (Gladys Bentley) From: Jim Dixon Date: 16 Dec 16 - 12:22 AM RED BEANS AND RICE As recorded by Gladys Bentley, 1928. Red beans and rice, greasy bacon in the pot. (2x) Cold bread in the oven, coffee on the stove ain't hot. I don't get no chicken; ham and eggs would poison me. (2x) He won't buy no sugar, just to sweeten his own tea. Walked to work this mornin' 'cause I only had one dime. (2x) Wouldn't spend it on myself; spent it on that man o' mine. He don't buy no clothes; he don't keep his laundry clean. (2x) He short-ordered lovin', stingiest man I've ever seen. I take all my pay to the man I call my pal. (2x) And he's always broke; my man must have an outside gal. I'm gonna to leave for work, but I'm gonna double back, no doubt. (2x) If I can't get in, no one better not come out. Red beans and rice, mornin', noon and ev'ry night. (2x) I can't keep on workin' with only rice and beans in sight. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Thompson Date: 15 Dec 16 - 06:46 PM Oh, you did, so you did, and so did he and so did I, And the more I think about it sure the nearer I'm to cry, Oh weren't them the happy days when troubles we knew not And our mothers made Colcannon in the little skillet pot |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Joe_F Date: 15 Dec 16 - 04:29 PM Eggs, eggs, and marrowbone Won't make your old man blind. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Thompson Date: 15 Dec 16 - 04:16 PM And it's bainne na bó is na gamhna, and the juice of the barley for me! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Cool Beans Date: 15 Dec 16 - 11:46 AM Here's a link to my song "Cinnamon Rolls" (They come eight to a pack/ Give 'em a whack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN4s8EuQ95A |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BOOGIE WOOGIE BLUE PLATE (Louis Jordan) From: Jim Dixon Date: 14 Dec 16 - 07:55 PM BOOGIE WOOGIE BLUE PLATE Words and music by Joe Burhkin & Johnny De Vries. As recorded by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, 1947. There's a gal at the local beanery. She's a pretty hunk o' scenery. She can make a choc'late soda go s-s-s-s-s. You oughta go around and dig it When she's workin' at the spigot. You can hear her calling orders like this: Give me a ham white down and a burger rare, Side o' slaw an' a seven-layer, O.J. up, wreck two in a cup, And a boogie-woogie blue plate. Give me a crippled beef on a load o' hay, Combo rye and a bottle of "A," Comin' through with a slab o' moo, And a boogie-woogie blue plate. Draw one; draw two. Get that coffee perkin'. Draw three; draw four. Hold that mayo on the chopped egg workin'. Want a tuna wheat with a side o' fries, Eighty-six on the cherry pies, Side o' greens on the franks and beans, And a boogie-woogie blue plate. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MANGO VERT (calypso - Mighty Sparrow) From: Jim Dixon Date: 07 Sep 16 - 07:13 PM This was mentioned by Mark Roffe on 26 March 1999 (who earlier referred to it incorrectly as a "papaya song." This is my transcription; it needs some correction. In particular, I'm sure the last half of the last line is very wrong, but I can't get do any better. Also, I don't know what "mango vert" means—does it mean an unripe mango? MANGO VERT As recorded by Mighty Sparrow. 1. A Yankee man and a woman was in confusion. This Yankee man and a woman, whoa-ah! was in confusion. The woman give him something to eat with stringy, stringy hair but it tasted sweet. He say: "I rather do without; you stick up in me teeth and don't(?) wash me mouth." CHORUS: She said: "You eat it right, the hair won't stick in your teeth, And you're bound to say how it tasted sweet, sweet, sweet; But if you eat it wrong, don't walk in the street. Ev'rybody will know when they see the hair in your teeth." 2. So the Yankee man tell her: "Honey, tell me why you're forcin' me. As a rule, when I'm done, scrub me teeth, I want nothing more to eat." So she said: "Take it easy, Joe; it seem to me like if you don't know, But this thing is tasting so nice, if you eat it once, you must eat it twice." CHORUS 3. At the time, I living next door; what they talking 'bout, I don't know, But the conversation interest me, so I listenin' attentively. She try to rub the thing in he mouth; he started runnin' and jumpin' 'bout. She said: "You think I making sport; keep a-runnin' or I push it straight down your throat, Joe." CHORUS 4. As I leave, I wanted to know; I ain't care if they call me mango. After listening attentively, I knock on the door very boldly. When I bust the door and I enter, I see them standing up in the center. The stupid Yankee catching cold feet; he's a mango barely man 'fraid to eat(?). CHORUS |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Jim Carroll Date: 07 Sep 16 - 03:37 PM Not forgetting 'The Unquiet Gravy' Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,Anne Neilson Date: 07 Sep 16 - 03:33 PM Adam McNaughtan from Glasgow (Scotland) has two grand food-related songs. The first is Cholesterol, inspired by a west of Scotland health campaign for healthier eating. To the tune of the WW2 song 'Bless 'em All', Adam produced memorable lines like '"Brown bread with a low fat paste thinly spread on' (margarine) / May be healthier than a meat pie / But I don't give a hoot for their yogurt and fruit / I'll have Black Forest gateau and die! / Cholesterol, cholesterol -- my chance of surviving is small. / The cream I consume, it might lead to my doom, / but I love my cholesterol! And a wonderment of word smithery is to be found in his tribute to a very local Scottish delicacy, the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer! Scots are well known for their sweet tooth/teeth and this song celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the baking company who became renowned -- following the removal of rationing restrictions post-WW2 -- for sweet biscuits/cakes such as the tea-cakes and the aforesaid Caramel Wafers. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: YOUR GREENS GIVE ME THE BLUES (Wirtz) From: Jim Dixon Date: 06 Sep 16 - 11:15 PM Another one mentioned by Ronn: YOUR GREENS GIVE ME THE BLUES As recorded by the Rev. Billy C. Wirtz on "Deep Fried and Sanctified" 1988. Baby, don't you know it's a sad circumstance That I wear the apron and you wear the pants? Yo, but baby, I love you; that ain't the question. Your cookin' would give Godzilla indigestion. Your chicken ain't clickin'; your greens just gi' me the blues. Your biscuits don't rise; your muffins don't work. If Betty Crocker saw 'em she'd go completely berserk. You burned the toast. You even burned up the roast. Your fried chicken ain't clickin' and your greens just gi' me the blues. You deep-fried the jello; you boiled the bacon. The artichoke told me his heart was breakin'. I ate one of your biscuits; the dog ate seven, And now he's restin' up in canine heaven. Now that cake recipe that you got from your mom, It looks like Hiroshima after they dropped the bomb. You totaled the toast. Just look at this roast! Your fried chicken just ain't clickin' and your greens still gi' me the blues. You even fouled up the turkey. You make my beef kinda jerky. Well, your chicken ain't clickin' and your sweet potato, stewed tomatoes, ravioli, guacamole, … chowmein, quiche Lorraine, and most of all, your greens just gi' me the blues. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MEMPHIS WOMEN AND CHICKEN (Dan Penn) From: Jim Dixon Date: 06 Sep 16 - 09:55 PM This was mentioned by Ronn on 17 March 1999: MEMPHIS WOMEN AND CHICKEN As recorded by Dan Penn on "Do Right Man" 1994. [spoken:] I see the sign: "Memphis, twenty-five miles" It goes like this: I'm headin' into Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. There's one place in this world I can get some'n' good to eat. I'm hungry for some lovin', some fried chicken Cooked up greasy an' finger-lickin'. I know just where to go; there's this woman I know. She shakes it up right and lets it simmer real slow— Memphis women and fried chicken. Memphis women and fried chicken. Over on Union there's a good ol' gal. She can smoke a pig; she can fry some fowl. She got biscuits in her oven, cornbread in the pan. I get by to see her ever' chance I can. I catch a whiff when I turn the corner. My mouth starts to water and I'm a goner For them Memphis women and fried chicken. Memphis women and chicken. Yeah, I take my old guitar and I go down on Beale, Play some good blues and get a read good meal. I don't care if whiskey ever hits my lip As long as I get a taste o' them barbecued ribs. Now that ol' woman up on the bluff makes her livin' makin' pies. Got them choc'late-covered fingers, dark blueberry eyes. Got the light powdered sugar sprinkled all in her hair. Her apple turnover is beyond compare. When it's hot, late and sticky and you want some'n' cool an' sweet, She keeps her handle crankin' on that homemade ice cream. Memphis women, good fried chicken. Memphis women and chicken. [spoken:] That's the thing about Memphis: Ever' time I come down here it speaks to my senses. It's got some'n' to do with— They got that fried chicken. They got that fried chicken. They got that fried chicken. They got that fried chicken, Down in Memphis— Fried chicken. Barbecue too! [ad lib and fade] |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 24 Aug 16 - 07:46 AM One of the songs on that compilation that Christine Alvin put together on the c.d. one meat ball was "Tomato Puddin'". I can't recall the artist's name....Jeff?? He is an actor and the name escapes me now I think he is involved with a theater group called rose?? Oh my.s aged y Google...Jeff Daniels |
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Subject: Lyr Add: ENGLISH MUFFINS AND IRISH STEW From: Jim Dixon Date: 24 Aug 16 - 01:16 AM I must admit this is one of the stupidest songs I've transcribed. ENGLISH MUFFINS AND IRISH STEW Words by Bob Hilliard, music by Moose Charlap. As recorded by Sylvia Syms, 1956. You'd never think they'd go together, but they certainly do: The combination of English muffins and Irish stew. I must admit that they're quite delicious and so easy to chew: The combination of English muffins and Irish stew. I've tried macaroni and Spanish rice. That's not so very nice. That's not so very nice. I've tried French pancakes with German sauerkraut, But that's one dish I'd do without. You'd never think they'd go together, but they certainly do. The combination of English muffins and Irish stew. The Mexican army has eaten salami and onions from Peru, But it don't compare with English muffins and Irish stew. The English and the Irish have been firish(?) now and then, 'Cause the Irish think that they can knock the stuffin' Out of any old English muffin. So you'd never think they'd go together, but they certainly do: The combination of English muffins and Irish stew. I've tried sukiyaki in Labrador, And I don't want no more. No, I don't want no more. I've tried hot tamale with Turkish shish kebab, But I prefer corn on the cob. You'd never think they'd go together, but they certainly do: The combination of English muffins and Irish stew. The Mexican army has eaten salami and onions from Peru, But it don't compare with English muffins and Irish stew. No, it don't compare with English muffins and Irish stew. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BANGERS AND MASH (Kretzmer/Lee; Sellers) From: Jim Dixon Date: 21 Aug 16 - 01:17 AM This was mentioned by Bert on 16 Mar 1999: BANGERS AND MASH Words by Herbert Kretzmer ; music by Dave Lee. As recorded by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren, 1961 I met her down in Napoli and didn't she look great! And so I brought her back to Blighty just to show me mates; And though we're married happily, I'll tell you furthermore, I haven't had a decent meal since nineteen forty-four. —Eat your minestrone, Joe. —That's all you ever say. —Eat your macaroni, Joe. —Ev'ry blinking day. —No wonder you're so bony, Joe, and skinny as a rake. —Well then, give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make. Bangers and mash! —Minestrone! —Bangers and mash! —Macaroni! —Give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make. —Eat your tagliatelle, Joe. —That's all I've heard for years. —Eat your vermicelli, Joe. —It's coming out me ears. —You've got to fill your belly Joe; Joe, for heaven's sake! —Well then, give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make. Bangers and mash! —Tagliatelle! —Bangers and mash! —Vermicelli! —Oh, give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: I HEARD THE VOICE OF A PORK CHOP (Jackson From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 May 16 - 08:57 AM These words seem to be a parody of "I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY (COME UNTO ME AND REST)" but it is sung to a different tune. I HEARD THE VOICE OF A PORK CHOP [I. As recorded by Jim Jackson, 30-Jan-1928. YouTube.] I walked and I walked and I walked and I walked; I stopped for to rest my feet. I set down on an old oak tree, there went fast asleep. I dreamt I was settin' in a swell cafe as hungry as a bear. My stomach sent a telegram to my throat: "There's a wreck on the road somewhere." I heard the voice of a pork chop say: "Come unto me and rest." Well, you talk about your stewin' beef; I know what's the best. Well, you talk about your chicken, ham and eggs, turkey stuffed and dressed, But I heard the voice of a pork chop say: "Come unto me and rest." [II. As recorded by Ben Curry (a.k.a. Blind Bogus Ben Covington), 1-Sep-1928. Jim Jackson is credited as songwriter. YouTube.] I ain't had no use for chicken since way back yonder last spring, For a chicken tried to peck me 'cause I stepped on his wing. Old chicken caused me to go to jail; I don't let no chicken do that. I would have stoled ev'ry hen he had, but I found out they was fat. I was walking down the street today just as hungry as I could be, And I walked right in a swell cafe; this is what they said to me: "Hey, won't you have some chicken?" "Oh, no, I'll have some beef." "Anytime a man refuse chicken here, he has to pay before he eats." I heard the voice of a pork chop say: "Come unto me and rest." You talk about liver, stew and beans, but I know what's the best. That's pork chop, veal chop, ham and eggs, turkey stuffed and dressed. I heard the voice of a pork chop say: "Come unto me and rest." Well, I walked and I walked and I walked and I walked and I stopped to rest my feet. I set down beside of a great big tree; then I soon was fast asleep. I dreamed I was settin' in a swell cafe just as hungry as a bear. My stomach sent a telegram to my throat: "There's a wreck on the road somewhere." I heard the voice of a pork chop say: "Come unto me and rest." You talk about liver, stew and beans, but I know what's the best. That's pork chop, veal chop, ham and eggs, turkey stuffed and dressed. Heard the voice of a pork chop say: "Come unto me and rest." |
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Subject: Lyr Add: PAPA DON'T WANT NO FISH AND RICE AGAIN From: Jim Dixon Date: 14 May 15 - 06:04 PM You can hear this on YouTube: PAPA DON'T WANT NO FISH AND RICE AGAIN Written by Sam Manning, Sam Johnson & Oscar E. Johnson As sung by Sam Manning & The Felix Krazy Cats on Decca 18257a, 1941. Papa don't want no fish and rice nor hominy. That's not the kind of food for a man like me. My favorite dish is fish, But for fish sake, finish!* Papa don't want to see no fish and rice again. Big fish, little fish, catfish, fresh fish, all the same. Swordfish, pickle-fish—fish is fish by any name. Why, the doctors all explain Fish would help my brain, So papa don't want to see no fish and rice again. Mama, ain't there nothin' else that you can buy? Tummy ache all night, papa want to die. Tuna swallowed a whale. Any more fish and I'd go to jail. Oh, papa don't want to see no fish and rice again. Oh, papa don't want no fish and rice nor hominy. That's not the kind of food for a man like me. My appetite is big, But, mama, I ain't no pig. Oh, papa don't want to see no fish and rice again. * pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. This song seems related to "Mama Don't Want No Peas and Rice an' Coconut Oil" which was published in 1932. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Tattie Bogle Date: 15 May 14 - 09:07 PM I once wrote a song about Stovies - a real staple Scottish dish. Might post it later. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bert Date: 15 May 14 - 01:08 AM The Quartermaster's Store. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bert Date: 15 May 14 - 01:07 AM Fried Bread and Brandy-O - The Spinners Pickin' a Chicken - Eve Boswell When Your Pickle Glows at Night - Amos Jessup |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 14 May 14 - 06:15 AM Has anybody mentioned the ballad of Lumley Kettlewell? |
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Subject: Lyr Add: COME AROUND TO MY HOUSE (Georgia White) From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 May 14 - 06:18 PM COME AROUND TO MY HOUSE As sung by Georgia White, 1941. If you want good cookin', You can get good cookin'. If you want good cookin', Come around to my house. You can get some corn bread, And if you like good corn bread, And if you want good corn bread, Come around to my house. Well now, you like ham; I like ham All circled 'round with candied yam. You like pastry; I've got pastry, Sweet and hot and oh so tasty. You can get good cookin'. If you like good cookin'; And you want good cookin', So come around to my house. You can get good gravy If you like good gravy, And you want good gravy. Oh, come around to my house. You can get hot biscuits If you like hot biscuits, And you want good biscuits, Just come around to my house. Now you like jam; I like jam, Grape, for mint or leg o' lamb. You like pot pies; I've got pot pie, Guaranteed first time you try 'em. You can get rice puddin', If you like rice puddin', And you want rice puddin'. Say, brother, come on 'round to my house. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE SUPER SUPPER MARCH (Dr. Seuss) From: May Queen Date: 21 May 13 - 05:24 PM Here's my favourite as a kid and probably now too :) I sing this to my husband when its his turn to cook. The Super-Supper March Hungry, hungry I am hungry Table, table here I come I could eat a goose-moose burger Fifteen pickles and a purple plum I could eat three bowls of goulash Half a pound of wuzzled wheat I could eat a peck of poobers Then I`d really get to work and eat Oysters, noodles, strawberry stroodles French fries, fish hash, one red beet Lamb chops, wham chops Huckleberry mish mash Oh, the things that I could eat Doughnuts, dump-a-lings Blueberry bump-a-lings Chocolate mush-mash, super sweet Clam stew, ham stew, Water melon wush wush Oh, the stuff that I could eat Deep dish rhubarb, upside-down cake I could eat a frittered flum Hungry, hungry, I am starving Table, table, here I come Any one else remember this one from school? It was in the Apusskidu children's song book used in UK primary schools in the 60's and 70's |
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Subject: Lyr Add: CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE (Jimmy Buffett) From: Jim Dixon Date: 21 May 13 - 09:33 AM CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE As sung by Jimmy Buffett on "Son of a Son of a Sailor" Tried to amend my carnivorous habits. Made it nearly seventy days, Losin' weight without speed, eatin' sunflower seeds, Drinkin' lots of carrot juice and soakin' up rays, But at night I'd had these wonderful dreams: Some kind of sensuous treat, Not zucchini, fettuccine, or bulgur wheat, But a big warm bun and a huge hunk of meat. CHORUS: Cheeseburger in paradise (paradise), Heaven on earth with an onion slice (paradise), Not too particular, not too precise (paradise), I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise. Heard about the old time sailor men. They eat the same thing again and again. Warm beer and bread they said could raise the dead. Well, it reminds me of the menu at a Holiday Inn. Times have changed for sailors these days. When I'm in port, I get what I need: Not just Havanas or bananas or daiquiris, But that American creation on which I feed: CHORUS: Cheeseburger in paradise (paradise), Medium rare with mustard'd be nice (paradise), Heaven on earth with an onion slice (paradise). I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise. I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and french-fried potatoes, Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer. Well, good God almighty, which way do I steer for my— CHORUS: Cheeseburger in paradise (paradise)? Makin' the best of every virtue and vice (paradise), Worth every damn bit of sacrifice (paradise), To get a cheeseburger in paradise, To be a cheeseburger in paradise. I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise. I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57, and french-fried potatoes, Big kosher pickle, and a cold draft beer. Well, good God almighty, which way do I steer? |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: YorkshireYankee Date: 27 Nov 12 - 09:49 PM Not a folk song, but "Food, Glorious Food!" (from "Oliver!") would seem an obvious candidate... |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 27 Nov 12 - 01:47 PM Blickie for Open Mike's radio show featuring food songs |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Arkie Date: 27 Nov 12 - 10:15 AM Ok a few more and I will call it quits for now, but I found these on my computer. old fiddle tune - Paddy Won't You Drink some good old Cider Bradley Kincaid - I Had but 50¢ Prickly Pear - The Big Food Chain Bob Campbell - Arbuckle Coffee Bob Newman - Leftover Hash Johnny Silvo - Cornbread, Peas, & Black Molasses old fiddle tune - Sal's Come to the Cider Mill Did not check to see if this was already posted - All Go Hungry Hash House |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Arkie Date: 27 Nov 12 - 09:50 AM Impressive lists and it seemed like everything was covered but I did not find the following: Lacy Dalton - Black Coffee Bill Haley - Forty Cups of Coffee fiddle tune - Sugar in the Coffee Gene Autry, Red Foley, Lulu Belle & others - Methodist Pie Guy Clark - Instant Coffee Blues Merle Travis - Too Much Sugar for a Dime Baxter Black - A Vegetarian's Nightmare or a Dissertation on Plant's Rights (poem) Baxter Black |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 26 Nov 12 - 08:11 PM here is a playlist and a link to listen to the archived show: FOOD Crossroads Show - November 25, 2012 - Thankful for Bountiful Harvest KROV f.m. 91.1 f.m. Oroville, CA, www.orovilleradio.org, http://orovilleradio.org/shows/view/45 Host, Laurel Paulson-Pierce, "Your Radio Common 'Tater", veraloe@ gotsky.com Artist / Song / C.D. / Record Label / approximate Time song starts in the show Tom Russell / Bowl of Red / Heart on a Sleeve / Bear Family Records Sweet Potato Pie / Roly Poly / Brand New Day / Mountain Fever Records Dave Van Ronk / One Meat Ball / title Song / Appleseed Records Tom Paxton, Anne Hills, Bob Gibson / Bottle of Wine / see above Debi Smith, Doc Watson / Pie / See Above 16:15 Chuch McCabe / Meats in a Can / Creatures of Habit in a World of Change / Scuppernong 20:30 Chuck McCabe / Hollandaise / see above Lance Brown / Kitchen Blues / Too Busy to Work / www.lancetunes.com "Uncle" Dave Osterreich / Beans, Bacon and Gravy / Mudcat Sampler / Blue Plate Special 31:00 Yvonne Hollenbeck / Bachelor Junk Food / Sorting Time / Dorian Buttes Publishing 35:18 Joe Craven / Hot Turkey / Camptown / Acorn Music 37:05 Faith Petric / Highway Hunter / When Did We Have Saurkrout? / Center Records 41:49 " " / Idaho Spud / see above 44:55 " " / Title Song / see above 47:40 Cathy Fink , Marcy Marxer / Orange Cocoa Cake / Parent's Home Companion/ Rounder 51:16 Rail Road Earth / Livin' the Good Life / Title Song / Sugar Hill 54:20 Greg Brown / Canned Goods / Prairie Home Companion 1983 / 1:00:00 Peter Cooper and L.G. / Mamma Bake a Pie / The Lloyd Green Album / Red Beet Records 1:02:15 Ellis Paul / The Star in the Apple / Dragon Fly Races / Black Wolf Records 1:06:32 Readings from several Farmer's Almanacs by Laurel 1:08:00 Background music by Clare Milliner and Walt Koken/ Cookhouse Joe / Mudthumper Kate Campbell / Pans of Biscuits, Bowls of Gravy / Blues and Lamentations / Large River 1:21:08 " " / Corn in a Box / Monuments / Large River Music 1:25:00 Dana and Susan Robinson / A - Z Farmer's Market / American Hornpipe /Threshold Music 1:28:15 James Reames & Barnstormers / Cornbread, Molasses,and Sassafrass Tea / One foot in the Honky Tonk / Mountain Redbird Music 1:32:00 Flatlanders / Eggs of Your Chickens / Wheel of Fortune / New West 1:33:45 Greg Brown / Out in the Country / Prairie Home Companion 1986 1:37:15 Katie Lee / Ballad of Alfred Packer / Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle / Katydid Music 1:42:00 John Walker / Red Beans and Rice / Nebraska Tall Grass Sampler / Prairie Dog Music 1:45:19 Craig Werth / Zucchini Surprise / The Spokes Man / SELF 1:50:15 Ann Hills and David Roth / Rhubarb Trees / Title Song / Wind River Music 1:52:37 Connie Kaldor / Okanagan Peaches / Postcards from the Road / Word of Mouth 1:55:50 Fiddlestix /The Beer Song / Live at the Conservatory of Music, Stockton, CA / SELF 1:58:30 Ian Tyson and Nanci Griffith / Canadian Whiskey / Wounded Heart of America, Tom Russell Songs/ High Tone Records 2:03:52 Water Tower Bucket Boys / Tequila and Lime / Sole Kitchen / Monkey Trench Studios 2:07:23 Dandelion Wine / Miss V Gypsy Cowgirl / Range Rider, Songs of the Trail / Self (Eagle) 2:11:45 David Grisman and Jerry Garcia / Drink Up and Go Home / Been All Around This World / Acoustic Disc 2:15:39 Whiskey Before Breakfast / Huckelberry Flint / Pillowfort to end |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bert Date: 24 Nov 12 - 11:15 PM Found a peanut. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 24 Nov 12 - 10:00 PM ok,i am not hungry or thirsty any more! what a great "menu" thanks all you mudcats for sharing...hope everyone had a good thanksgiving... |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,Eddie1 (Still sans cookie) Date: 14 Nov 12 - 10:33 AM Here's the Playlist for a radio show I did a few weeks back: Artist – Title – Length Chet Atkins – Country Champagne – 02:36 Various Artists – Strawberry Fields Forever – 02:21 Jean Jacques Milteau – Gumbo – 01:49 Willie Nelson – Whiskey River – 04:04 Archie Fisher – Gunsmoke & Whisky – 03:34 The Carter Family – Chewing Gum – 03:05 Chet Atkins – Java – 02:41 Chuck McCabe – Meats in a Can – 01:48 Virginia Boys – Dill Pickle Rag – 01:30 Emmylou Harris – Another Pot o' Tea – 03:03 Flatt & Scruggs – Hot Corn, Cold Corn – 02:32 Grandpa Jones – Mountain Dew – 02:13 Gretchen Wilson – One Bud Wiser – 03:39 Hamish Imlach – Goodbye Booze – 03:10 Harry McLintock – Big Rock Candy Mountain – 04:39 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Jambalaya – 03:22 Janis Ian – Hunger – 06:28 Jerry Garcia – Whiskey in the Jar – 04:17 Jimmy Rodgers – Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia – 02:51 Lefty Frizell – Cigarettes and Coffee Blues – 02:37 Lonnie Donegan – Take a Drink on Me – 03:15 Merle Haggard – I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink – 03:58 Hank Thompson – What Made Milwaukee Famous – 02:08 Burl Ives – Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly – 02:39 Slim Dusty – Pub With No Beer – 03:00 Eddie – Put Another Log on the Fire – 01:39 Red Hot Chilli Peppers – We Will Rock You – 02:22 Red Ingles – Cigareets & Whuskey – 02:42 Red Foley & Ernest Tubb – Too Old to Cut the Mustard – 02:54 Johnny Paycheck – The Bottle Let Me Down – 04:23 The Dubliners – Rare Old Mountain Dew – 01:27 Iain MacKintosh – The New Restaurant – 02:15 Tom Paxton – Bottle of Wine – 02:54 Tom T Hall – Old Dogs & Children – 04:10 Emmylou Harris – Two More Bottles of Wine – 03:15 George Jones – White Lightnin' – 02:45 Young Tradition – Chicken on a Raft – 03:34 Eddie – |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Joe_F Date: 13 Nov 12 - 08:58 PM From barley we get home-brewed ale, From malt our whiskey comes, But from the oats in Staffordshire Do come our lumpytums. * There's folk that's teetotalers, they drinks water neat. It must rot their gullets and given them webbed feet, But I always say that a man can't grow stale On boiled beef and bacon and good English ale. Ale, ale, glorious ale! Served up in pewter, it tells its own tale. Some folks likes cabbages, some curlye kale, But give I boiled parsnips, And a great dish of taters, And a lump of fatty bacon, And a pint of good ale! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bettynh Date: 13 Nov 12 - 03:16 PM Junk Food by the Four Bitchin Babes and Slow Food by David Holt |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: moongoddess Date: 13 Nov 12 - 02:38 PM One Clam Cake by Jon Campbell over here in Rhode Island. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 13 Nov 12 - 03:50 AM hooray for the fresh and spicy additions to this smorgasboard of tunes. Yes, it was while listening to Deb Cowan's version of Good Fish Chowder that I decided that my thanksgiving show would be centered around food! inspiring, that! luckily listening to songs about food is not likely to add pounds as actually consuming it does! Kate Campbell has several songs about food...Funeral Food and casseroles as well as holy tomato seeds -- Jesus and Tomatoes coming soon! Let's see... who does Animal Crackers in my Soup? oh yes, Shirley Temple! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: BK Lick Date: 13 Nov 12 - 01:26 AM Old Woman From Wexford aka Marrow Bones |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: reggie miles Date: 12 Nov 12 - 05:02 PM I never did get litigious with the company that produced those awful tasting dills but I did get a great song out of the deal. I figure a jar full of sour pickles in exchange for a sweet song is a fair trade. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: reggie miles Date: 12 Nov 12 - 04:51 PM Hmmm, I'm rather surprised after viewing my post in this thread from way back on March 15th of 1999. In that post my song suggestion is linked, via some strange computational algorithm, to another song, not the song that I had in mind. Weird! I, too, enjoy food songs. I've written a couple of them since then. A nice video of my latest food songMakin' Bacon was captured on April 4th, 2012 as I was offering it to listeners at Sliders Cafe in Carnation, WA. And here's a link to an audio file of my song A Dilly Of A Tale (The Pickle Song). This song was inspired into existence via a thread post that I was answering right here at The Mudcat Cafe. I recall that we were having a conversation about a woman who was going to take McDonalds to court, because she burned her lip on hot pickle. As I was writing my response, about having recently consumed some just plain bad dill pickles and wondering if I had a case of my own, my song was born. Enjoy! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bettynh Date: 12 Nov 12 - 01:05 PM Christine Lavin made a compilation CD, One Meat Ball with some great versions of food songs, including Dave Van Ronk explaining the title song, Tom Paxton singing "Bottle of Wine" in French, and Debi Smith singing "Pie" with Doc Watson accompanying. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: CupOfTea Date: 12 Nov 12 - 12:45 PM Though the Berrymans' witty When Did We Have Sauerkraut? song was mentioned earlier, they regularly mention food in their songs. Crab Canape is a lovely duet of dueling food sensibilities. Orange Cocoa Cake is a whole recipe interspersed with mom-to-kids chat interruptions. As your show is Thanksgiving-oriented, their Uncle Dave's Grace would be a gem. Hills, Herdman & Mangsen recorded a great version of it on one of their Winter albums. Cindy Mangsen's Cat Tales album includes Open That Can detailing food cravings feline, canine, and human. Deb Cowan's latest album has a fun (how to sing along with) version of the previously mentioned Good Fish Chowder (and is one of MANY reasons to get this excellent album) Also previously mentioned Dad's Dinner Pail is the title song of another album of hers. Hot Soup's Soup Happens has the song Soup detailing the pleasures of hot soup on cold winter days. Chicago's duo Small Potatoes Time Flies album has their Avocado song that was featured in a car's sound system sample. Les Barker is a great source of parody songs featuring food (for as many as there are, he ought to be a good deal wider than he is...) Besides Custard Creams and Hard Cheeses of Old England my favorite is My Husband's Got No Porridge in Him (Food and Fractured Faerie Tales all in one!). I can't remember the rest without digging the albums out - I just remember more. Long before I got in over my head in folk, I had a brief flirtation with light Jazz, after falling in love with the writing of Michael Franks who does several food songs, though admittedly dripping cutesy innuendo. His Art of Tea album has what might be his best known song Popsicle Toes along with Eggplant Good luck with your show & happy food contemplation for Thanksgiving Joanne in Cleveland |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 12 Nov 12 - 04:29 AM ahh...refreshing this thread...looking for food songs for my radio show ... my next 2 hour show will be around thanksgiving (NOV.24) and often the thing we are most thankful for on that day centers around food! Isn't there a cowboy song about biscuits and gravy? (all i could find was this parody by Lady Antebellum www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXsN-J-ASqg we sing several food songs including GROUNDHOG. i just found an all girl bluegrass band called Sweet Potato Pie. Their title song is featured online... anyone have any other foodie songs not yet mentioned? how about Junk Food Junkie ? By Larry Groce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLiVeRJTtqo |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: open mike Date: 27 Feb 11 - 10:33 PM that guest at 1:48 was me without cookies..hey, that's food, too Kate Campbell has a song about tomato seeds: “Jesus and Tomatoes”, coming soon. and Stephanie Davis has a song about gardening, planting and canning food..”Talkin’ Harvest Time Blues” also Peach Pickin’ Time in Georgia and If You Don’t Want My Peaches don't shake my tree Chris Smither has a song about a vegetable vender who calls out the wares on his wagon...watermelon, etc. Peanut, peanut butter, and jelly...is a kid's song with hand movements describing making bread, and jelly and spreading p.butter and jelly on bread Norton Buffalo did a song about "Ain't No Bread in the Breadbox" the Grateful Dead sang it.. John Prine has a line about a bowl of oatmeal staring him down and winning [=“Illegal Smile”] Simon and Garfunkel had a line about raisin bran or corn flakes in a song about roger draft dodger....? [=“Punky’s Dilemma”] any one remember that one?? |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 27 Feb 11 - 01:58 PM My "We Go Together" has a fair bit of (human and bee!) food in it - http://walkaboutsverse.webs.com/#109 |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST Date: 27 Feb 11 - 01:48 PM Watching the Apples Grow – Stan Rogers Farmer Song – Gary Fjellgaard(?) “inch by inch, row by row” – The Garden Song – David Mallett Banana Slug String Band has several: Dirt Made My Lunch and others John McCutcheon has a song about Soup.. and there is a song about The Wonderful Soup Stone – Shel Silverstein? Apples and Bananas Red Red Wine Miss American Pie (is that food?) I remember hearing a line about Apple Pan Dowdy [="Shoo-Fly Pie"]...in a song about the south That's What I Like about the South...has ham in it too Banana Pancakes – Jack Johnson Guy Clark – "Texas Cookin'" we sang a song at camp about Fried Eggs, Ham and Baloney and After the Macaroni We'll Have Pizza Banana Boat Song – “come Mr. Tally Man tally me banana daylight come and me wanna go home” – Harry Belafonte |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,open mike Date: 27 Feb 11 - 01:41 PM I did not have time to read nearly 150 entries but did think of these...maybe listed already.. When Did We Have Sauerkraut? – by Peter & Lou Berryman Homegrown Tomatoes – Guy (and Susanna) Clark Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow – Trad. Chocolate – Christine Lavin Cold Pizza for Breakfast – Christine Lavin Potatoes – Cheryl Wheeler Applesauce – Christopher Smith |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Jim Dixon Date: 26 Feb 11 - 07:47 PM Harry Champion (1866-1942), British music-hall star, recorded several songs about food: A Little Bit of Cucumber Boiled Beef and Carrots Good Old Yorkshire Pudding Home Made Sausages Hot Meat Pies, Saveloys and Trotters I Want Meat Let's Have a Basin of Soup Standard Bread That Gorgonzola Cheese |
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Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: MEAT HATS (Bradley/Hauenstein/...) From: GUEST Date: 07 Feb 09 - 02:39 PM Almost forgot this one, goes to the tune of Blackbird Meat Hats Music Lennon/McCartney/Words Bradley/Hauenstein (G)Meat Hats (C)worn by a (G)friend of mine I am (A7)sure he's (Am7)mad, he (A°)thinks he's di(Em)vine,(C) (G)Boy, (A7)be (C)wise,(Cm) Your (G)Haute (A7)Couture is (C)only (D7) drawing (G)flies.(C)(G) (A7) (D7/4) (G)Meat Hats (C)worn by a (G)friend of mine Have a (A7)ten day(Am7) exipi(A°)ration (Em)date.(C) (G)I'm (A7)i(C)rate.(Cm) His (G)bacon top hat decom(A7)poses (C)at a (D7)rapid (G)rate. (F) (C) (Dm)Bad (C)Meat (Bb)Hat, (C) (F) (C) (Dm)Bad (C)Meat (Bb)Hat, (A7) (hold) Walking with (D7)him, Better walk up(G)wind. - Instrumental verse - (F) (C) (Dm)Bad (C)Meat (Bb)Hat, (C) (F) (C) (Dm)Bad (C)Meat (Bb)Hat, (A7) (hold) After ten (D7)days Smelling awf´ly (G)bad.(C) (G)Meat hat stinking in the (C)dead of (G)night, 10 days (A7)old, gives (Am7)off an (A°)eerie greenish (Em)light,(C) (G)Shines (A7)all (C)night,(Cm) (G)´Nuff to give old (A7)grandpa´s ghost (C)one hell (D7)of a (G)fright, (C)Shinin´ (G)like a (A7)bacon in the (D7)wee hours of the (G)night, (C)Grandpa´s (G)ghost will (A7)piss his pants a(D7)gain al(G)right.(C)(G) © Music Lennon/McCartney Words Scott Bradley/Jan Hauenstein A° E----2------------ B--1-------------- G----2------------ D--1-------------- A----------------- E--xx------------- janhauenstein@gmx.de |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SEAFOOD DEPARTMENT BLUES From: GUEST Date: 07 Feb 09 - 02:36 PM Got one more Seafood Department Blues (Hauenstein, Henriksen, Otto & Barrett) (C)Woke up this (F)morning, (C)Blues swimming (G)in my (C)head. (F)Smelt something (C)funny, Had a (E)flounder (E7)in my (Am)bed. (F) (G) (C) (G7) (C) Well, I woke up this (E7)mornin' With a crus(A7)tacean in my shoes, No shad, man! (F)Woke up this (C)mornin'(C/B) With a (Am)lobster where I (Am7)didn't (G6)choose.(G) (F)Sleepin' behind the (C)fishmart Givin' me them (F)Seafood De(G)partment (C)Blues. (F) (G) (C) (G7) (C) I had clams in my pa(E7)jam's And (A7)grouper in my BVDs, (F)Seven bivalves in my (C)sleepwear,(C/B) (Am)Givin' me a (Am7)seven (G6)seize. (G) (F)Seafood Department (C)Blues, now, (F)Like to bring me (G)to my (C)knees. (F) (G) (C)And I found some (E7)caviar, Da (Am)bass, dey laid some (F)eggs, I (E)found dem oh so (Am)tasty At da (F)bottom of mah (G)legs. (F) (C) (F) (G) (C) Met a shark in the (E7)dark, We (A7)had us a whale of a time, And them (F)jellyfish made a (C)mighty fine (C/B)dish, They´re (Am)seven dozen (Am7)for a (G6)dime.(G) (F)Seafood Department (C)Blues, (F)Sure feels (G)like a (C)crime. (F) (G) (C)Down in Fishmart (E7)Alley 'S a barra(Am)cuda with a (F)gun, (E7)Stickin' up the (Am)tourists And (F)tuna'n' up for other (G)fun, (F)Kelpin' hisself to other´s (C)goodies 'n (F)Sellin' seaweed (G)by the (C)ton. (C7) (F) (Fm) (C) (F) (G) (C) (G7) (C) written by Jan Hauenstein, Gene Henriksen, Joanne Otto and Tom Barrett, no rights reversed. A smelt is a small lake fish found in the great lakes.(Tom B) A bivalve is a mollusk, such as an oyster or a clam, that has a shell consisting of two hinged valves. Music Goettingen, 28 August 2004 janhauenstein@gmx.de |
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Subject: Lyr Add: A PINK PORK CHOP AND A GRILLED LINK ... From: GUEST Date: 07 Feb 09 - 02:35 PM Food songs, ok... A Pink Pork Chop And a Grilled Link Sausage Bradley, Rivett & Hauenstein A (C)Pink Pork (Am)Chop(Am7)(Am) And a (F)Grilled Link (C)Sausage, There's (F)no bare (G)space on my (C)plate.(F) (C) A (G)Pink Pork (Am)Chop(Am7)(Am) And a (F)Grilled Link (C)Sausage, Yes, (F)I'm a (G)meat repro(C)bate. (F) (C) (G)(hold) (E)I was weaned on (Am)corned beef hash 'Cause (F)mother's milk gave (G)me a rash. (F)Now it's meat that (C)I a(Am)dore, (F)Just call me a (G)carnivore! (G7) A (C)pink Pork (Am)Chop(Am7)(Am) And a (F)Grilled Link (C)Sausage, (F) I just (G)cannot tell a (C)fib, (F) (C) A (G)Pink Pork (Am)Chop(Am7)(Am) And a (F)Grilled Link (C)Sausage, (F) I'd kill a (G)cow for Prime (C)Rib. (F) (C) (G)(hold) (C)Meat…(Am7) (F) (G) (C)Meat…(F) (C) (G) (C)Meat…(Am7) (F) (G) (C)Meat!(F) (C) (G) (hold) (E)Suck the marrow (Am)from a bone, (F)Wear Mesquite (G)as a cologne (F)Can't relate to (C)herbi(Am)vore (F)What the hell are (G)their teeth for?(G7) A (C)pink Pork (Am)Chop (Am7)(Am) And a (F)Grilled Link (C)Sausage, (F) I don't (G)mean to cause dis(C)dain. (F) (C) A (G)pink Pork (Am)Chop (Am7)(Am) And a (F)Grilled Link (C)Sausage, (F)I've got meat (G)products on the (C)brain! (E)Wheat germ and (Am)soy(Am7)(Am) Were (F)never a (G)joy, And (E)veggies were (E7)never a (Am)treat.(Am7) My (F)love of crus(C)tacian (F)Ended in frus(C)tration, (Am) Let (F)me(G) eat (C)Mea(Am7)ea(F)ea(G)eat, (C)Mea(Am7)ea(F)ea(G)eat, (C)Mea(Am7)ea(F)ea(G)eat, (C)MEAT!! (F) (C) written by Scott Bradley, John Rivett & Jan Hauenstein, December 2004 janhauenstein@gmx.de |
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Subject: Lyr Add: TASTES LIKE CHICKEN (Austin Lounge Lizard From: Jim Dixon Date: 21 Aug 08 - 08:34 PM Transcribed from an archived radio program (and then I found it here). To hear it, click here and then advance to 00:24:43. TASTES LIKE CHICKEN Hank Card/Conrad Deisler/Gail Fisher/Eamon McLoughlin/Kristen Nelson Card/Tom Pittman/Boo Resnick I have traveled round the world from Fiji to Nairobi, Sampled the exotic fare from Chihuahua to the Gobi. From Land's End to Helsinki and all points in between, I've been fed the finest Finnish food and British haute cuisine From the malts of Montezuma to the s'mores of Tripoli, From the mints of Machu Picchu to the doughnuts of the deep Dead Sea. Let me set you straight, my friends: it always seemed to be, Mammals, fish, and reptiles all taste the same to me. Chipped beef on toast, have a friend for pot roast, Tender little piggy toes with a bit of Bordeaux, French-fried mince pies right between the fish eyes, Half-baked pound cake, Shake 'n Bake, and rattlesnake, Slop, glop, (taste like chicken) Gruel, drool, (taste like chicken) Spumoni, baloney, (taste like chicken) Taste like chicken to me. Quattro formaggi in an ancient Tuscan palace, Mystery meats impaled on sticks at the State Fair in Dallas, Leaning towers of pizza and spaghetti bolognaise. How I love thee, pu pu platter! Let me count the ways. I've scouted out the finest kraut in Baraboo, Wisconsin. I've filled a dish with gefilte fish with a Jew named Ole Yohnson, The joys of vegan nut loaf with a side of lychee ramen. From French nouveau to lutefisk, they all have this in common: Alligator, Darth Vader skewered on a light saber Burger topped with special sauce, a bit o' car exhaust Hot corn, cold corn, bring along a demijohn, Kumquats, Tater Tots, Devon cream with lots o' clots, Stones, bones, (taste like chicken) Slush, mush, (taste like chicken) Hummus, pumice, (taste like chicken) Taste like chicken to me. Fillet of bunny when it's sunny is lip-smackin' good. Monkey brains when it rains is my favorite food. [Pronounced to rhyme with "good"] Artichoke is okey-doke with a slice of tongue. Manatee's a dream to me, especially when it's young. Catguts, rat butts, any-way-you-can nuts, Groundhog, boiled dog, love a little legless frog, Orange pop, gumdrops, Shari Lewis lamb chops, Collard greens from New Orleans, Chianti and fava beans, Blubber, flubber, (taste like chicken) Masa, kielbasa, (taste like chicken) Lizards, gizzards, (taste like chicken) Taste like chicken to me. Chalupas, pupas, (taste like chicken) Cookies, Wookiees, (taste like chicken) Soda, Yoda, (taste like chicken) Order, chaos, (taste like chicken) Dopey, Grumpy, (taste like chicken) Donner and Blitzen, (taste like chicken) Democrats, Republicans, (taste like chicken) Betty, Veronica, (taste like chicken) Taste like chicken to me. [From the Austin Lounge Lizards' album "Strange Noises in the Dark," Blue Corn Music CD 303, 2003.] |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 04 Oct 07 - 06:06 PM Junk Food Junkie - from an old Dr. Demento album One Meat Ball - Josh White & others Acres of Clams - an old Seattle favorite (Remember Ivar's?) Johnny McEldoo - The Clancy Brothers Way Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch (assuming they're still edible) Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder? Shoo-Fly Pie (and Apple Pan Dowdy) Of course, if you lump drink in with food, it opens up a real Pandora's Box of possibilities.... |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Rog Peek Date: 04 Oct 07 - 02:39 PM 'Boiled Beef and Carrots' 'The Salt' |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,PHINQUE Date: 04 Oct 07 - 01:26 PM "The Road Kill Cafe" has some interesting ideas on eating. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: GET A LOAD OF THIS (Armstrong/Dodge) From: Stewie Date: 04 Oct 07 - 11:31 AM And a classic from Robert Crumb's Cheap Suits: GET A LOAD OF THIS (Armstrong/Dodge) My girlfriend's over but I sent her away 'cause she almost knocked the supper off my TV tray Bring a loada' RC Cola TV Dinner A plate of Twinkies It takes a pink burrito For to keep me clean (For to keep me clean) TV dinner is the meal that I'm lovin' Take off the foil, 30 minutes in the oven Bring a loada' RC Cola TV Dinner A plate of Twinkies It takes a pink burrito For to keep me clean (For to keep me clean) Don't like no carrots, can't stand no peas But a pack of Ding Dong bring me down to my knees Bring a loada' RC Cola TV Dinner A plate of Twinkies It takes a pink burrito For to keep me clean (For to keep me clean) Girlfriend's sweet, she ain't like no other Let's me spend all day in front of that 24-inch color Brings a loada' RC Cola TV Dinner A plate of Twinkies It takes a pink burrito For to keep me clean (For to keep me clean) Only one thing makes me jump up and holler TV breaks down during Bowling for Dollars Get a loada' RC Cola TV Dinner A plate of Twinkies It takes a pink burrito For to keep me clean (For to keep me clean) (Oh yeah) (That's right) --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST Date: 03 Oct 07 - 09:06 PM the I had ham song is by dan crow. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 24 Mar 07 - 11:27 AM Grandpa Jones used to sing as ong called "Gooseberry Pie". Of course, Utah Phillips had a story about pie............. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,Rev Date: 24 Mar 07 - 01:24 AM Perhaps this is stretching a bit, because gum doesn't really count as food (and it's a TPA novelty song), but I've always loved "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight," if only for its very evocative title. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: rich-joy Date: 23 Mar 07 - 08:43 PM from the links on my October 27th, 2005 posting above : Chendie's Meatloaf Blues Phil & Kylie's Sticky Date Pudding Throw It On the Barbie Val's Cherries Jubilee MP's Vegie Slice Pork Fillets in Apple & Guinness Sauce Fillets of Soul St Germain Sandy's Patent Leather Pie Rayner's Scallops Corrie's Coconut Cabbage Soup all good, catchy, folkie, food songs!!!!! ... and yes folks, this CD is still available :~))) Cheers! R-J Down Under |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST Date: 23 Mar 07 - 04:55 PM On the other hand you've got 'The Grey Coc-au-vin', 'Hang Down Your Head tandoori', 'The Unquiet Gravy', Alan Tyne of Marrow - et al. Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Fred Maslan Date: 23 Mar 07 - 12:02 AM "Everything is food" from the Popeye movie with Robin Williams by Nilson., Not published as near as I can tell, or on the soundtrack recording. The only way to learn it is to play the movie over and over. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Scoville Date: 22 Mar 07 - 11:56 AM This isn't quite a food song, but Marti Brom has a great one called "Eat My Words", about love gone wrong. The chorus goes: "Well, gimme a fork, gime a knife, I'm gonna eat my words . . . Yeah, sit me down, fill me up a platter, Great big platter of that love chitter-chatter, And if I need a drink on the side, I'll take a little swallow of my pride." |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Scoville Date: 22 Mar 07 - 11:49 AM We sing it "Fifty pounds of 'possum". Five pounds is the appetizer. Shish-kebab if you can get enough of them. I hope to God I never actually see a fifty-pound possum, though. Yikes. |
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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:
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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,
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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
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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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Subject: Lyr Add: A BOWL OF RED (Tom Russell)^^ From: Stewie Date: 12 May 00 - 03:31 AM One of my favourites is Tom Russell's bowl of red:
A BOWL OF RED
Words and music Tom Russell End of Trail Music. Copyright 1963 CAPAC. Other good 'uns that spring to mind include Dan Penn's 'Memphis Women and Chicken', the Cornish song 'Starry Gazy Pie' [="Tom Bawcock's Eve"] and Lonnie Mack's wonderful 'Oreo Cookie Blues'. --Stewie.
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Robo Date: 11 May 00 - 11:33 PM And John Prine's "Christmas in Prison" -- "It was Christmas in prison and the food was real good/We had turkey and pistols carved out of wood." |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: TheOldMole Date: 11 May 00 - 11:21 PM Carole King...Chicken Soup With Rice House of Blue Lights -- fryers, broilers, Detroit barbeque ribs....
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Robo Date: 11 May 00 - 11:00 PM What about Loudon Wainwright III's "I Eat Out" . . . hilarious. "I can cook a little but it's not a lot to talk about/it's kind of mean cuisine, so I eat out." |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Susan A-R Date: 11 May 00 - 08:58 PM Still alive!! I love it! Susan A-R |
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Subject: Lyr Add: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM EATING?^^ From: GUEST,Nancy King Date: 11 May 00 - 07:36 PM Folk 1234 referred to "HOW CAN I KEEP FROM EATING." I learned that one from Judy Cook a few years ago, and have the writer's name written down somewhere, but not handy just now. The words, as best I recall, are:
My life goes on in endless flow HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone 28-Dec-2000 |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: TheOldMole Date: 11 May 00 - 03:08 PM Ray Stevens' "Gourmet Restaurant," and U. Utah Phillips' "Moose Turd Pie." |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Peter Kasin Date: 11 May 00 - 02:54 PM You might want to check out "Good Fish Chowder" on Mudcat's song database. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,digger Date: 11 May 00 - 01:35 PM We sing a Watermelon song with my Girl Guide pack. It's an action song: Just plant a watermelon right on my grave Let the juice (schlurp)slip through Just plant a watermelon right on my grave That's all I ask of you Well southern fried chicken might taste mighty fine But nothing tastes sweeter than a watermelon rind...pizza! So plant a watermelon right on my grave Let the juice slip through-oo-oo (It sounds a little familiar to the one Night Owl talks about above...a children's action song with sound effects.) |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: GUEST,Mrr Date: 11 May 00 - 12:37 PM I can't do a blicky or I'd link it myself, but there is a Recipe Songs thread running around too. Remember, I'm trying to coin "blicky" as the neologism for "Blue cLICKY" (thing). |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LIME JELL-O MARSHMALLOW COTTAGE ...^^ From: Jim Dixon Date: 11 May 00 - 11:01 AM LIME JELL-O MARSHMALLOW COTTAGE CHEESE SURPRISE (William Bolcom, 1986) Ladies, the minutes will soon be read today. The garden club and weaving class, I'm sure have much to say But next week is our culture night, our biggest best event And I've just made a dish for it you'll all find heaven-sent. It's my lime Jell-O marshmallow cottage cheese surprise, With slices of pimento - you won't believe your eyes - All topped with a pineapple ring and a dash of mayonnaise. My vanilla wafers round the edge will win your highest praise. And Mrs. Jones is making scones that are filled with peanut mousse, To be followed by a chicken mold that's made in the shape of a goose. For ladies who must watch those pounds, we've found a special dish: Strawberry ice, enshrined in rice, with bits of tuna fish. And my lime Jell-O marshmallow cottage cheese surprise - Truly a creation that description defies. It will go so well with Mrs. Bell's creation of the week, Shrimp salad topped with chocolate sauce and garnished with a leek. And Mrs. Perkins' walnut loaf that's crowned with melted cheese Was such a hit last culture night, we ask, no seconds please. Now you must try her hot dog pie with candied mushroom slices. Those ladies who resigned last year, they just don't know what nice is. And my lime Jell-O marshmallow cottage cheese surprise. I did not steal that recipe! It's lies, I tell you, lies! A grand surprise, a picture hat (?) and a seven-sequin gown For any girl who tries each dish and keeps her whole lunch down. I'm sure you all are waiting for the biggest news, dessert. We've thought of things in molds and rings your diet to subvert. You must try our chocolate layer-cake on a peanut-brittle base With slices of bananas that make a funny face, Around the edges, peppermints just swimming in peach custard, With lovely little curlicues of lovely yellow mustard. If all this is too much for you, permit me to advise More lime Jell-O marshmallow cottage cheese surprise. I made heaps! - - - As "sung" by Joan Morris with piano accompaniment by William Bolcom on "Lime Jello - An American Cabaret" RCA AML1-5830. Also on "Keepers: Morning Show Favorites," a CD available as a premium for membership in Minnesota Public Radio, MPR 102. This "song" is more a rhythmic recitation (like talking blues, but different). @food This song was originally posted by rich r but I straightened it up and added some information. JTD
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Barry Finn Date: 26 Mar 99 - 11:26 PM Thanks MMario, I'll refresh it. Thanks Barry |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: MMario Date: 26 Mar 99 - 11:57 AM BARRY - I just did a very thorough search of the forum for your previous post about "a cook on a bark" ... and couldn't find it. In fact, no posts show for you on that date. Maybe it needs to be reposted in a seperate thread? It apppears to have been "lost" at some point. MMario
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Les B Date: 26 Mar 99 - 12:50 AM Don't forget Bob Wills' "Roly Poly" ... eatin' corn and taters, hungry every minute of the day... and "The Barnyard Dance" by Martin, Bogen & Armstrong (?) ... The little turnip top did the backwoods flop... "Pans of Biscuits" by Hedy West ... pans of biscuits, bowls of gravy... "Beans, Bacon, and Gravy" as sung by every folky from Woody Guthrie on down ... Oh them beans, bacon, and gravy, they're 'bout to drive me crazy... and Uncle Dave Macon's "I'll Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy" - Wow, that's enough cholesterol ! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Mark Roffe Date: 26 Mar 99 - 12:17 AM Hey Night Owl, Sparrow is still around. Over the last decade he's released some Soca albums, which I've seen in the stores but resisted buying. I just did a web search and noticed he had a new album come out on 3/16/99 called Supreme on the Musicrama label. I have some of the old Sparrow stuff - let me know if you want to pursue that subject. I didn't know he was banned in the states, but he's a master of the double-entendre: little kids as well as their parents can enjoy his singing about for example how he's afraid the pussy might scratch him. Whoops, the "If you eat it right the hair don't stick in your teeth" song I quoted above was the MANGO song [="Mango Vert"], not the PAPAYA song. I have papayas on the brain - I used to oversee a papaya farm! Mangos are often stringy and the hair DOES stick in your teeth. Mark |
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Subject: food songs From: Barry Finn Date: 24 Mar 99 - 11:13 PM I posted this some while ago, never got anywhere, hoping maybe in this thread I find so help, besides it is a great food song. Barry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Lyrics: A Cook On A Bark ? From: Barry Finn Date: 06-Feb-98 - 11:56 AM I have an old tape & this song is on it & through all the merrymaking can't make out alot of the words.Some of goes as follows: I was cook ( onboard of a bark, 3 X ) That was the way I made my mark Slinging up the hash Many sailors eat my stew They're all dead I'm telling you When we're out of ( bacon fat 3 x ) Then I catch a juicy rat I know what to do You salt the critter well He will last for quite a spell You should try my ( lobster sauce 3 X ) Nothing taste as well with with horse It's a lovely course You should try my shark fin soup It's the stuff to make you stoop The rest of it, another 4 verses, about lobster tails, custards, whale blubber, beatles & water as rum & beer, I can't make out. The first 3 lines including the (3X) are to an A part melody & the last 2 line of the verse are of a different melody & timing. Has any one got any history and/or words, or anything to else to this, I've never seen or know of anyone who's heard of anything resembling this song. Thanks, Barry |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bret Maiers Date: 24 Mar 99 - 02:46 AM SHORTENING BREAD!! Ever since my dog's been dead, The hog's been ruinin' my potato bed. I do love; Shortening bread! Everybody loves; Shortening bread! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Night Owl Date: 24 Mar 99 - 02:17 AM I haven't heard Sparrow's name in years..he used to be considered the Bob Dylan of the Carribean...(in hindsight not sure how much of a complement that is to him)Is he still recording? There was a time when his music was banned in the States. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Mark Roffe Date: 24 Mar 99 - 01:44 AM From the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) who won the Trinidad Calypso Competition for about 20 years running, comes "The Papaya Song" [="Mango Vert"] which I swear was the number-one AM radio hit when I moved to the Caribbean in 1970: "Well if you eat it right, the hair don't stick in your teeth. And you're sure to say it's tasting sweet sweet sweet. But if you eat it wrong you'd best not walk the street. Everybody gonna know, when they see the hair in your teeth." If you like that one, I could be persuaded to write down the lyrics to "Elaine and Harry" too. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Susan A-R Date: 23 Mar 99 - 10:24 PM Hey, as far as I'm concerned, anything goes. As long as I don't start using these posts in order to build my menu, although I COULD use it to do a bang-up April Fools menu Worms, eels, and MORE!!! and CATSPAWWW!!!! WHERE IS THE COCONUT SONG!!!!
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Arkie Date: 23 Mar 99 - 09:20 PM Can the food be in its raw state or does it have to be prepared? If it does not have to be prepared, the is a fish song, probably by someones of the ilk of Pinkard and Bowden - only line I remember is "I Lobster and Never Flounder" or something like that. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Penny Date: 23 Mar 99 - 06:14 PM My nieces used to sing a song called something like The Super Supper March which started "Hungry, hungry, I am hungry, I could eat a frizzled flum, I could eat a goose-moose-burger, four pounds of pickles and a purple plum," becoming progressively more and more ridiculous. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bert Date: 23 Mar 99 - 05:43 PM Cockles and Mussels/Molly Malone Liverpool Barrow Boy Strawberry Fair Caller Herrin The Lincolnshire Poacher Old Macdonald |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: steve in ottawa Date: 23 Mar 99 - 05:24 PM Goober Peas is my fave from the above.
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Subject: RE: food songs From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 22 Mar 99 - 08:17 AM Thanks, rich r- that is the song! In the frozen northlands where I live it feels real good to taste a little of the summer. All is gray and rainy here today. MMMMmmmmmmm, peaches! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Ian Date: 22 Mar 99 - 07:56 AM What about Ilkla' Moor Ba' T'at then? |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: AlistairUK Date: 22 Mar 99 - 07:49 AM Would you count "Think I'll Go and Eat Worms" as a food song? |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: AlistairUK Date: 22 Mar 99 - 05:23 AM Catspaw yeah where is the Coconut Song?? |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 21 Mar 99 - 06:37 AM Oh yes, and there is "The Preacher and the Slave" It is in the DT; but the chorus is: You will eat bye and bye Just to pick nits, the DT has the penultimate line as "Work and Pray, live on hay". I like it both ways. Murray |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Sandy Paton Date: 21 Mar 99 - 01:58 AM Joe Hickerson sings "Good Fish Chowder" on one of his Folk-Legacy recordings. Has no one mentioned "Groundhog?" Caroline sings "Sally's Quiche," but I can't tell you where it has been recorded (and she's asleep). Sandy |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Susan A-R Date: 21 Mar 99 - 12:09 AM Catspaw, we're still waiting for "the Coconut Song." |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 20 Mar 99 - 05:40 PM While not about food alone, "Vanilla" by Shel Silverstein. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: CANNED GOODS (Greg Brown)^^ From: rich r Date: 20 Mar 99 - 04:38 PM Greg Brown's great song "Canned Goods" is on three of his recordings; One Night (1983), One More Goodnight Kiss (1988), and The Live One (1995). The first one in an out of print LP recorded at the Coffehouse Extempore in Minneapolis. The latter 2 are available as CD on the RedHouse Records label. A complete discography, most of his lyrics and other stuff can be found at: http://www.wing.net/gbrown/index.html?
"Canned Goods"
Well let the wild winter wind bellow and blow
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Well there's a root cellar, fruit cellar down below [repeat chorus]
Well maybe you are weary and you don't give a damn [repeat chorus]
Oh she got magic in her, you know what I mean [repeat chorus]
What with the snow and the economy and everything [repeat chorus]
When I go down to see Grandma, I gain a lot a weight [repeat chorus] While searching for something else on the net I encountered the following site that lists the title of 333 songs about food. There are no lyrics and they are primarily rock/pop/broadway material, but is is a long list that may get some folks thinking (or perhaps wondering what is in the fridge) http://mixedup.com/foodsongs.htm rich r |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Arkie Date: 20 Mar 99 - 03:23 PM Dang computer caved in under the weight of all these deep thoughts. A few others to add to the pot: and for another instrumental, Whiskey Before Breakfast. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 20 Mar 99 - 02:41 PM Greg Brown also does a wonderful song called (I think) "Taste a Little of the Summer" about his grandmother's magic with a canner. I wish I knew the words or what recording it was on- it's definitely my favorite food song. [=Canned Goods] For my most favorite disgusting food song, it's got to be "Comet" as sung by Sandy and Caroline Paton! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Arkie Date: 20 Mar 99 - 01:16 PM Haven't heard the Great Tomato Vendetta in over 20 years and would sure like to hear it again. I've searched for Mason Williams zany recordings for sometime and come up empty. As for other nominations to the list of 'food' songs there is "Coconut" from Harry Nilsson's Songwriter album and "Chicken on a Raft". |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 19 Mar 99 - 02:53 PM Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed, That's what I to my baby said, Women's liberation is a'goin' to your head, Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed. I think my first wife destroyed this album. I don't remember verses. Kinky was a tad short of politically correct. Guy Clark sure does love food. Must be right up there with sex for him. He does another song called "Texas Cookin'". Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Lonesome EJ Date: 18 Mar 99 - 03:53 PM Kinky Friedman had "Get your Biscuits in the Oven and your Buns in the Bed". Had some humorous lyrics but I don't remember them. One of my favorites is Paul Barrere' (formerly of Little Feat) doing "Rad Gumbo".
"She don make no etouffee' This song has a real menu of food references, and actually makes me hungry when I hear it. I LOVE that New Orleans food! |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: folk1234 Date: 18 Mar 99 - 03:32 PM About 7 or 8 years ago I heard a great food song at Pinewoods, "How Can I Keep From Eating" done to the tune of ".....From Singing". I can't recall who did it and I don't know if it was ever recorded or even written down |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Penny Date: 18 Mar 99 - 03:08 PM The Irish Jubilee, posted to the Forum on 13th January 1998, has some very peculiar food in it. Thanks Wolfgang, for pointing me there. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Barbara Date: 18 Mar 99 - 01:15 AM The Hard Cheese of Old England has many puns, including one of my favorite food puns: "Those Edam foreigners aren't worth cement Though old Gorgonzola is known for his scent, And his brother Emil wrote novels in French, Singing oh, the hard cheese of old England In old England very hard cheese.
Its something Wallace and Grommit would be proud of, and it's in the DT.
Catspaw, in the food as metaphor category, to go with your salmon mousse, "If girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice, how come they smell like anchovies?"
Here's the first verse for free:
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Barry Finn Date: 18 Mar 99 - 12:42 AM "I once was A Cook on a Bark, cook on a bark, cook on a bark". What I had of this (I was searching for the missing rest) sea song of a sea cook who could kill with his cooking skills, is in the forum if you're interested. Barry. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: ddw in windsor Date: 18 Mar 99 - 12:24 AM Shel Silverstein's Beans Taste Fine (in DT) and Bo Carter's Beans ddw |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Mark Roffe Date: 18 Mar 99 - 12:24 AM Oh That Gorgonzola Cheese! Nothing ever like it, I suppose. Our tomcat fell a corpse upon the mat when the niff went up his nose. Talk about the flavor of the cracklin on the pork - nothing ever smelt so strong as the beautiful effluvial that filled the house...when the gorgonzola cheese went wrong. (I heard Robin Williamson and his Merry Band sing this one at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco). Mark |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Ronn Date: 17 Mar 99 - 11:42 PM Hank Williams--Jambalaya; Tom Waits--Eggs & Sausage; Rufus Thomas--Fried Chicken; Dan Penn--Memphis Women and Chicken; Rev Billy C Wirtz--Your Greens Give Me The Blues; Duke Tumatoe--Barbeque These are the ones that AREN'T about sex. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Night Owl Date: 17 Mar 99 - 12:42 AM Ferrara...the version of "Watermelon" I know came from New England. I'd be interested to know the verses your mother sang..if you remember them. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Ferrara Date: 16 Mar 99 - 10:25 PM Yeah catspaw, some of us would like the words (and tune!) of Coconuts. I remember a little more: "There stands me wife, the idol of me life, singin' Roll a bowl a ball a penny a pitch." (which more or less repeats for the chorus.) My dad loved it, sang fragments of it all the time. I think it was about an Italian carnival booth, he loved any spoof of things Italian. Robin C, "Strangers in My Soup" is in the DT and is sung to the tune of "Strangers in the Night." First heard it at an Open Sing. A show-stopper. Night Owl, in the 40's my mother sang a much less polite and fairly offensive (by today's standards) version of the watermelon song: "Oh the ham bone am sweet /And the taters am good /And the possum fat and cornbread mighty fine/ But give me, oh give me/ I really wish you would /That water-million hangin' on the vine." She learned it in Georgia....
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Subject: RE: food songs From: AlistairUK Date: 16 Mar 99 - 11:23 AM catspaw: oh post them post them do...my great aunt used to sing it all the time and I always felt ashamed that I never remember it as it would have been a traditionally picked up song (extereme tounge-in-cheekness there) |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bert Date: 16 Mar 99 - 10:47 AM The Potato Song - Cheryl Wheeler |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Mar 99 - 10:28 AM Pathetically enough I think I know most of the lyrics to that one Alistair...but I don't think they're worth posting. I'm stii waiting for ideas from my previous post. catspaw
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Subject: RE: food songs From: AlistairUK Date: 16 Mar 99 - 10:15 AM I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts All there sitting in a row Big ones, small ones some as big as your head... and that's as much as I remember thank goodness |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bert Date: 16 Mar 99 - 10:00 AM Whoops, forgot Honeycomb |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Bert Date: 16 Mar 99 - 10:00 AM Yes We Have No Bananas Jellied Eels Picking All the Big Ones Out Give us a bash of the Bangers and Mash me Muvver used to make Food Glorious Food Digging My Potatoes. (yes we do get sex and food mixed up) Beautiful Soup (That Lewis Carroll song) Jelly Bean |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Allan C. Date: 16 Mar 99 - 09:00 AM Another liquid song (or at least one of my favorite lines is in it): "Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight" "...though that I was in a dream when she asked me if I wanted cream." |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Banjer Date: 16 Mar 99 - 06:15 AM I would love to help, but at 6am all that comes to mind is Alabam..."some folks say that a tramp won't steal but I caught two in my corn field, I'm on my way...etc." |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 16 Mar 99 - 06:02 AM I like "PRINCESS POO-POO-LY HAS PLENTY PA-PA-YA". I started a thread on this and supplied what lyrics I remembered. I never did get the rest of the lyrics but it doesn't hurt to try again. Click here to read the thread. Murray |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: skw@worldmusic.de Date: 16 Mar 99 - 03:36 AM Night Owl - thanks. There seem to be two songs (at least) about watermelon. Susan's description of a John McCutcheon song 'with a memorable spitting chorus' sounds more likely for the one I'm thinking of. We'll get there ... - Thanks again, Susanne |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: MudGuard Date: 16 Mar 99 - 03:24 AM Well, although it is more about fluid food (= drink), and even more exactly about the absence of it: PUB WITH NO BEER! Andreas |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Robin C. Date: 16 Mar 99 - 02:45 AM Ferrara, Is that ANIMAL CRACKERS IN MY SOUP? |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Night Owl Date: 16 Mar 99 - 01:22 AM To skw....I have no idea who wrote the "Watermelon Song" I learned. I'm not sure we have the same song. The chorus of the version I know has "creative" sound effects for children to "sing".....words are: Oh-hambone is sweet Chicken is good Possum meat is very,very fine But give me, oh give me I really wish you would That watermelon hanging on the vine. The verses are about a failed attempt to steal a watermelon from a farmer's field. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Ferrara Date: 15 Mar 99 - 11:15 PM "MISS FOGARTY'S CHRISTMAS CAKE." "BLACK, WHITE, YELLOW AND GREEN" (a song about "the rarest plum puddings you ever have seen"). "STRANGERS IN MY SOUP." "A LITTLE BIT OF CUCUMBER." "SAUERKRAUT," by the Berrymans (also called The Refrigerator Song). |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Susan A-R Date: 15 Mar 99 - 09:37 PM Wow! You've got me thinking now. Does anyone know the MotherFolkers song about chocolate? Also, seems to me that Greg Brown also does one about his grandmother putting a taste of summer in jars. (CANNED GOODS) John McCutcheon wrote a watermelon song with a pretty memorable spitting chorus. (WATERMELON) |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 15 Mar 99 - 07:00 PM CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE, Jimmy Buffett. JUNK FOOD JUNKIE, which is in the database.
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Jo Taylor Date: 15 Mar 99 - 06:47 PM I LIKE BANANAS (BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BONES)
I don't like your peaches 'cos they're full of stones |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Cap't Bob Date: 15 Mar 99 - 04:48 PM I think that would have to be "The Tomato Vendetta". My second choice is "Green and Yeller". I did that one today for a group of 5th grade students and they just loved it. Cap't Bob
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Subject: Lyr Add: BREAKFAST BLUES (Trout Fishing in America From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 15 Mar 99 - 02:37 PM I knew there was one lurking in my cranium that wanted to be found. I had to throw that other trash out first to uncover it. BREAKFAST BLUES As recorded by Trout Fishing in America on "Who Are These People?" (1994)
You give me hard eggs in the mornin'; cheese omelet you go. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 15 Mar 99 - 11:50 AM More songs come to mind. Greg Brown used to sing a song called "Slow Food." Rod Mc Donald has a song about "Corn" that he's not recorded, but he occasionally does in concert. Roy Blount, Jr. has a series of food poems that just beg for music, "How I love to eat an oyster, nothin's slicker, nothin's moister." This one ends with "I prefer my oysters fried, 'cause then I know my oyster's died." Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: reggie miles Date: 15 Mar 99 - 10:11 AM There are a couple of songs that I sing at almost every show. I have a regular Friday evening gig at a little Cajun style restaurant so food songs seem to be appropriate. They were written by a very good friend, Robert Oneman Johnson, who hails from Iowa City. The first is Supper Time and the other is Life's Too Short. 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 |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Felipa Date: 15 Mar 99 - 10:01 AM SOME LITTLE BUG IS GOING TO FIND YOU (it's in the DT), SWEET POTATOES, GOOBER PEAS, MAIL MYSELF TO YOU if feeling really silly: ON TOP OF SPAGHETTI or BOILED BEEF AND CARROTS I recall a foody verse to Row row row your boat which begins Hoe, hoe hoe your wheat |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Alistair Robb Date: 15 Mar 99 - 09:46 AM There's an extremely rude song called 'The Cucumber Song' by a guy that went out under the name of Ivor Biggun and the Red Nosed Burglars. He made the British charts back in the seventies with a song called the Winkers song (misprint) and he had other choice numbers such as 'I've Farted' 'My Brother's Got Piles' and heaps of others. I was at "that" age when I got hold of the album and it made a great impression on me. If anyone is interested in the lyrics...I was so impressed I still remember most of them. |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Dani Date: 15 Mar 99 - 08:31 AM GREEN AND YELLOW / YELLER / YALLER |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: skw@worldmusic.de Date: 15 Mar 99 - 07:51 AM COLCANNON? And please, Night Owl, who wrote the Watermelon Song (if indeed it's the one about eating a watermelon, with all manner of 'non-verbal' action)? A friend sings it but has forgotten the author, and it's not in the DT - not under this title, anyway. - Thanks, Susanne |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Mar 99 - 02:44 AM Uh, that's like an interesting thought there Roger. I mean I have rarely if ever confused sex with a Hostess Ho-Ho...but sure, it could happen. Perhaps if I were married to a woman that worked in a butcher shop, we might refer to it as carnal knowledge. I do remember one time I was on a diet and suddenly leaped out of bed and acreamed, "Christ, I gotta' have a bowl of cottage cheese!" When I returned, the girl was gone. Always figured that was her loss though, since I brought back two bowls. And then there was the confusion that one evening about the salmon mousse, but we got that cleared up and had a high old time. Women don't like to be compared to food in any way, even things that I consider complimentary. So I learned to stick to the tried and true metaphors, like, "Your eyes shine the pants on a blue serge suit." But I'll keep on reading this thread in the hopes that I'll get some new ideas to use with Karen. We got lots of kids and damn near no time for us, so food HAS replaced sex in some ways...so I guess I do see your point. catspaw |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: j0_77 Date: 15 Mar 99 - 02:28 AM CARVE DAT POSSUM (Uncle Dave Macon) |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Allan Samuels Date: 15 Mar 99 - 02:00 AM First from the PozoSeco Singers the "DIET SONG" Then I once heard a wonderfull song that told the receipe for beet borscht in rhythm, rhyme, and melody. It was on NPR and that's all I remember.....that and laughing so hard I nearly drove off the road. Allan |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Night Owl Date: 15 Mar 99 - 01:59 AM "THE WATERMELON SONG" and Staines recording of "SWEET POTATOES". |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 14 Mar 99 - 11:35 PM If you punch in @food in the DT, you get 135 listings including my favorite food song, "Home Grown Tomatoes" written by Guy Clark. Some others that come to mind are "THE CHICKEN CORDON BLEUS" by Steve Goodman and a song by Chuck Brodsky called aptly enough "The Food Song." An old blues song is "Biscuits" which is a double entendre, possibly not about food at all. It probably is no surprise to you Susan that sex and food get mixed up in our minds. We are definitely wired that way. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: alison Date: 14 Mar 99 - 11:14 PM Hi, Weird Al Yankovic..... Eat it... and Lasagne.... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: food songs From: Date: 14 Mar 99 - 10:08 PM TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME |
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Subject: food songs From: Susan A-R Date: 14 Mar 99 - 08:49 PM Since two of the major joys in my life are food and music (well there are others, but we've already explored them quite thoroughly under a few other threads) I thought I'd ask for favorite mudcatter food songs. I know that there are a lot on the database, but I want to know which ones you all LIKE. Too bad it's difficult to sing and eat at the same time. Susan |
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