Lyr Req: Country hick chat? / Arkansas Traveler

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Country hick chat
From: Cappuccino
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 02:12 PM

Oh, excellent.... I'd always heard of Arkansas Traveller, but I didn't know what it was.

Many thanks indeed, folks.

- Ian B

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Country hick chat
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 11:53 AM

Here's some Arkansas Traveller dialogue.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Country hick chat
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 11:26 AM

Part of the dialog is a part of the lyric in ARKANSAS TRAVELER(2

Some fairly recent discussion at thread ARKANSAS TRAVELER

John

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Country hick chat
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 06:14 AM

Sorry....meant to add that it's also like a variant that Ralph Stanley was famous for called, "How Far's Little Rock?"

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Country hick chat
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 06:09 AM

Along with some lines like....

Buddy, you can't be too far from a fool.
Nope, just this microphone in between us.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Country hick chat
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 05:25 AM

Sounds like The Arkansas traveller. I saw it in print yars ago, but I don't know where (sorry!). I recall it also had this exchange:
"Will this road take me into town?"
"Nope--you'll have to walk!"
and this:
"Why don't you fix the leak in your roof?"
"I ain't goin' up on the roof in the rain!"
"Well, why don;t you fix it when it's not raining?"
"If it ain't rainin' it don't need fixin'!"

Steve

Subject: Country hick chat
From: Cappuccino
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 05:14 AM

There's a country dialogue I heard done in Scotland about 20 years back, which sounds as if it came originally from some old Grand Ole Opry performers. It's a conversation between the city slicker, asking for directions in the countryside, and the country hick.

It begins: "You lived here all your life?" "Not yet!"

And eventually finishes: "You're pretty dumb." "Mebbe… but I ain't lost!"

I'm trying to find the entire thing, but have no idea where to start. Any ideas?

Thanks.

- Ian B