The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12722   Message #101745
Posted By: Dale Rose
02-Aug-99 - 08:31 PM
Thread Name: Songs about bugs, insects, spiders, snails, worms
Subject: RE: Buggy songs?
I can think of a couple that are done locally, but I sure can't think of the name of either one of them. One is a favorite of mine called the K********** Centipede (about a dancing centipede who gets her legs all twisted up when she tries to figure out just how she is doing it)as done by Deb (Mullins) Carbone, and the other by Dave Smith goes something like this: There ain't no bugs on me, there may be bugs on some of you mugs, but there ain't no bugs on me. My guess is that that one is called There Ain't No Bugs On Me!

I am sorry these are such flimsy clues. I usually do better, but maybe they will put someone else onto the right track. Perhaps Arkie will see this thread and bail me out. He is sure to know.

Oh, I just thought of a couple more! There's Some Little Bug Is Goin' to Get You Some Day by Bradley Kincaid. One of my favorites is The Doodlebug Song, by C E (Charles Ernest) Moody of the Georgia Yellowhammers, a late twenties, early thirties string band. He is perhaps best known as the writer of Drifting Too Far From The Shore and Kneel At The Cross, but there definitely was another side or two to him.

I can find and transcribe that one later ~~ also the Centipede song mentioned above, provided Deb's tape ever surfaces again. (Who is it that comes into my house and hides them anyhow???)