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Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham

03 Feb 05 - 08:32 AM (#1397746)
Subject: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: GUEST,Mrr

Heard 2 women sing a verse of this on Prairie Home Companion, but they'd been brought in to sing opera, so they went and sang opera, while I would really have preferred that they sing the rest of this great-sounding song. Anybody know it? I can find that it exists on the Internet but not the lyrics, nor is it in the Trad or forum already. Thanks, snort grunt snort snort!


03 Feb 05 - 09:02 AM (#1397783)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: The Fooles Troupe

I was taught to sing "Suzannah was a dirty old man"... which probably here on "dirty old man" did not turn up anything useful.


03 Feb 05 - 09:16 AM (#1397799)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: wysiwyg

Isn't it just the Funicle one skewed a bit?

~S~


03 Feb 05 - 09:25 AM (#1397804)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: GUEST

funicle man


03 Feb 05 - 10:06 AM (#1397856)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: GUEST,Mrr

That Funicle man sure sounds like the Mighty Fine Ham song, grunt ong, thanks! I knew I could count on this place for THIS song!


03 Feb 05 - 10:08 AM (#1397859)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: GUEST,Mrr

Also note that this was already discussed, and I was in the discussion (hey, who needs memory cells when you have Internet access) in this thread.


03 Feb 05 - 11:06 PM (#1398569)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: Bert

It's on my CD "Plastic Flower Seeds" and Seamus Kennedy has a version on one of his CDs.


04 Feb 05 - 04:16 PM (#1399322)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: GUEST,Mrr

The internet has it by Larry Nelson, I think it was. Sounds like a hard song to learn without the model, though...


13 Feb 05 - 01:54 AM (#1407943)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: GUEST,RJ

check out cd baby...larry svenson   who sings Suzannah was a mighty fine ham.    It is the same song from Prarie Home Companion


16 Jan 08 - 11:31 PM (#2238199)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suzannah was a mighty fine ham
From: GUEST,Peter

There was an old farmer who had an old sow
(grunt ) ow (snort) ow (whistle) aye diddle dow
FOR HE'S A FUNNY OLD MAN

Now this olsow had three little pigs   etc.


I learnt it as a child in the west of England