The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7056   Message #42160
Posted By: BSeed
18-Oct-98 - 01:39 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Froggie Went a-Courtin + Crawdad Song
Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
Barbara, Katie Kalleck was on KPFA (our local Pacifica--listener supported radio station) on a Sunday afternoon roots-music show, "A Pig in a Pen," chatting away between cuts from her then-new album. She and the host, whose name I should remember, started talking about fishing for crawdads. The host told about how he used to do it when he was a kid: catch, kill, and skin a rabbit, tie a rope to it and toss it out into the middle of the pond, and after a few minutes drag it in and shake a couple dozen crawdads off it, then toss it back in... --seed