The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23434   Message #261958
Posted By: NH Dave
21-Jul-00 - 12:04 AM
Thread Name: Burl Ives: story?
Subject: RE: Burl Ives: story?
As I recall, Pete Seeger adds a couple more lines to the Arkansas Saga

City Slicker: "Can you tell me how to get to Little Rock?" Farmer: "Don't know about no little rock but there's a whopper right down in the corn field."

And finishes up with one of the following:

City Slicker: "Farmer, You don't know much, do you?" Farmer: "Nope, but I ain't lost either."

or

City Slicker: "Ain't much difference between you and a fool, is there?" Farmer: "Nope. Just the yard and the fence between us!"

Usually interspersed with choruses of Arkansas Traveler. And about this time the city feller asks why the farmer is only picking the "A" part of Arkansas Traveler, the farmer asks if there's more, the city feller plays the "B" part, and the farmer invites him in for dinner. At least that's the way I've heard Pete play it.

Dave