07 Dec 99 - 05:23 PM (#146158) Subject: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Aoife Looking for an old-time tune: Chorus: " ***** that chicken and ++++++ away, +++++++ that chicken and +++++++ away, ++++++ that chicken and +++++++ away, I love chicken pie!" I know it's not much to go on, but you guys always come through for |
07 Dec 99 - 05:34 PM (#146165) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: honestfrankie To Aoife, There's a song on an early Ry Cooder album called Crow Black Chicken I believe that has a lyric something like what you're looking for. |
07 Dec 99 - 05:45 PM (#146170) Subject: Lyr Add: CROW, BLACK CHICKEN^^ From: Áine Dear Aoife, Here are the words to 'Crow Black Chicken'. honestfrankie is right about Ry Cooder recording this on his 'Boomer's Revenge' album. However, the Grateful Dead recorded this too, along with many other artists. I hope you enjoy it. -- Áine Crow Black Chicken
I went up on the mountain to give my horn a blow, |
07 Dec 99 - 05:47 PM (#146172) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Frankie Aoife & HF, That's off Boomers' Story by Ry Cooder. A great song and great album. Hoping not to be considered the dishonest one by default, Frankie |
07 Dec 99 - 05:51 PM (#146174) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Frankie Aine, I guess we were posting simultaneously. Thanks for posting the lyrics. Frankie |
07 Dec 99 - 05:53 PM (#146175) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Áine Dear Frankie with a "F" -- You are absolutely correct-o!! Don't know where my mind went there for a second -- Freudian slip, perhaps? Anyway, thanks for the correction! -- Áine |
07 Dec 99 - 06:18 PM (#146189) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Frankie Aine, I hope you realize that my little jest at the end of my first message was in response to the handle honestfrankie and not directed at you. Regards, Frankie |
07 Dec 99 - 06:35 PM (#146194) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Áine Dear Frankie with a "F", I did realize that, and I thought it was pretty funny! -- Áine |
07 Dec 99 - 08:26 PM (#146270) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Dale Rose I have tried to track this one down to its beginnings; the oldest recording that I am aware of is by The Leake County Revelers, a Mississippi string band, about 1928. ASCAP credits Bob Miller as the author, BMI says Edward Daniel Barnes and Mark D Rubin, a Boomer's Story page gives Laurence Wilson credit, 1936. Given the date of the Revelers' recording, I tend to doubt all of those claims. It is related to Run Mountain another old time song performed by J E Mainer among others. It is frequently performed at the Ozark Folk Center at Mountain View, Arkansas. |
07 Dec 99 - 08:51 PM (#146279) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Stewie The Leake County Revellers' version has the chorus and the first 2 verses in common with the text given above. They sing the 'owl' verse twice and the chorus repeatedly. They sing one other verse which I do not have the inclination to try to decipher - something about '14 years' and the chicken 'done gone away'. Dale's recollection is correct - it was recorded in New Orleans on 27 April 1928. I am sure there is another oldtimey song about loving chicken pie, but so far I have only been able to turn up Uncle Dave Macon's 'Bake that Chicken Pie' a rather racist little ditty about 'darkies', 'chicken coops', 'bulldogs' and 'watermelon patches'. I'll keep looking. Cheers, Stewie. |
07 Dec 99 - 09:11 PM (#146292) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Midchuck "I am sure there is another oldtimey song about loving chicken pie, but so far I have only been able to turn up Uncle Dave Macon's 'Bake that Chicken Pie' a rather racist little ditty about 'darkies', 'chicken coops', 'bulldogs' and 'watermelon patches'." This was also done by Pat Sky on Songs That Made America Famous." Perhaps the least politically correct song recorded in the US for public release in the last 30 years, unless you count the skinhead records... |
07 Dec 99 - 09:50 PM (#146308) Subject: Lyr Add: CROW BLACK CHICKEN / I LIKE CHICKEN PIE From: Lotusland CHORUS: Crow black chicken, crow today Crow black chicken, fly away Crow black chicken crow today I like chicken pie 1. I went up on the mountain to give my horn a blow I thought I heard a pretty girl say "Yonder comes my beau." 2. Once I had a great big house thirty stories high And every corner of that house was packed with chicken pie. -Source: The famous potatoes, via KPFK Los Angeles' "FolkScene" Program |
07 Dec 99 - 10:17 PM (#146333) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: margaret The person who taught me "Old Joe Clark" used to sing one verse "Old Joe Clark he built a house/fifteen stories high/every story of that house/was made of chicken pie." Interesting architecture, that. |
07 Dec 99 - 10:48 PM (#146358) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Bill D lots of those old songs have 'zipper' verses that move from song to song....it is really hard to tell which one is 'original' |
08 Dec 99 - 12:11 AM (#146394) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: Pete Peterson I first heard the song from the New Lost City Ramblers about 1962; it's on NLCR volume 4 (and re-released on CD as The NLCR;The Early Years) they credit the Leake County Revelers, CO 15318. Having heard both, the Leake. Co. group's version is slower, and as Stewie says, repeat the owl verse 2X. I can't understand the garbled verse either. The NLCR sing it more up-tempo and with the words covered by Ry Cooder (though I have never heard him) as given by Aine above. I would say the NLCR are "responsible" for getting the song back into circulation; one more reason to be grateful to Messrs. Seeger, Cohen, Paley and Schwarz. |
11 Jul 03 - 04:14 AM (#981093) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: somethin' 'bout 'Chicken Pie' From: GUEST The words " . . . . chicken pie" could be from "Crow Black Chicken". I'm not sure who did it first but Ry Cooder did a version of that song on one of his albums. D.L. |
18 Nov 12 - 05:45 AM (#3438079) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crow Black Chicken: 'I love chicken pie' From: GUEST Its a Dave Macon song. |
18 Nov 12 - 08:15 AM (#3438120) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crow Black Chicken: 'I love chicken pie' From: GUEST,999 Can you provide a link to it, Guest? |
27 Jan 20 - 01:39 AM (#4030448) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crow Black Chicken: 'I love chicken pie' From: GUEST I just discovered that crow black chicken means moonshine? Maybe! |
22 Aug 21 - 11:28 AM (#4117479) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Crow Black Chicken: 'I love chicken pie' From: GUEST,Dutch I've always interpreted this song to be about eating bush. Am I being over imaginative |