The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5550   Message #34210
Posted By: Art Thieme
06-Aug-98 - 12:12 AM
Thread Name: 'Mother Songs' of the tear-jerker variety
Subject: Lyr Add: YE CANNA SHOVE YER GRANNY^^^
YE CANNA SHOVE YER GRANNY

Oh, ya cannot shove your granny off a bus,
Oh, ya cannot shove your granny off a bus,
Oh, ya cannot shove your granny,
'Cause she's your mammy's mammy,
Oh, ya cannot shove your granny off a bus!

Got this from Sandy Paton---1959---on his old LP for Electra "The Many Sides of Sandy Paton". Sandy never liked this album very much, although I always thought it was a great recording. More than 30 years later he was visiting us in Illinois and I got him to sign it for me. (Didn't want to, but he did.)This record contains the FIRST recording of "Wild Mountain Thyme" on the American folk scene. They made Sandy cut a verse 'cause it would've been too long for radio play. Fred Hellerman--The Weavers---is the uptown-sounding guitar backing up Sandy here.