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Songs about Fruit n veg
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Subject: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Forsh Date: 31 Jan 08 - 05:57 PM Has anyone got any sugestions for (folk) songs about fruit, veg, growing stuff, farming the land, cooking even.. FOOD based, please, no dope growing songs! Any MP3s even better! Ta |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Melissa Date: 31 Jan 08 - 06:09 PM The YumYum Tree Music, Sex and Cookies The Beach Boys did a song that I think was some sort of campaign for a Vegetable Council (or something similar) I think it's maybe called "Vegetables" I heard a song quite a while back called "The Corn Will Still Grow" which was about an old farmer.."don't worry farmer and don't shed a tear, the corn will still grow when you're gone" On the other hand, surely these wouldn't be considered Folk. However, they ARE the ones I thought of. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Jack Campin Date: 31 Jan 08 - 06:23 PM The Banana Boat Song Any number of street cries (I have the Edinburgh ones, London ones are easy to find). Bile Them Cabbage Down Tatties and Herrin Lots of fiddle tunes with "apple" in the title I Gave My Love a Cherry The Praties They Grow Small Bulbes (Yiddish, "Potatoes") The Old Maid in the Garret ("...if I can't get a man, I'll have to use a carrot") |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Melissa Date: 31 Jan 08 - 06:25 PM Too Pooped to Pop |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Stringsinger Date: 31 Jan 08 - 06:39 PM BarnYard Song by Bogan, Armstrong and (?) I've forgotten one of the names. It's a good one: Late last night in the broad daylight all the vegetables gave a spree. They held out a sign saying "dance at nine" and All the admission was free. There were peas and beans, cabbages and greens, The biggest crowd you ever seen. And when Old Man Cucumber struck up his number, You oughta' hear the vegetables scream. The little turnip top did the backwards flop, The cabbage did the shimmy and she did not stop. The little red beet shook his feet and Watermelon died with a cockeyed heave. Little termatter, that agitator, She shook the shimmy with the sweet potater, And Old Man Garlic dropped dead of the colic, Down at the Barnyard Dance, this mornin' Down at the Barnyard Dance, I seen 'em Down at the Barnyard Dance Frank |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 31 Jan 08 - 06:50 PM Oats Peas Beans and Barley grow.
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Leadfingers Date: 31 Jan 08 - 06:51 PM Does cider count ?? |
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Subject: Lyr Add: VEGITALES From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:01 PM FROM - VEGITALES http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/vegitales/
[Ahem] And now it's time for love songs with Mr. Lunt
He said to her "I'd like a cheeseburger, [Chorus]
'Cuz you're his cheeseburger
He stayed at the drive-through till sunrise [Chorus]
'Cuz you're his cheeseburger
'Cuz he loves you cheeseburger You are his cheeseburger
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Anglo Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:27 PM I'll admit that I've always loved Squalor. It's all because she didn't eat her vegetables. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: bobad Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:36 PM Call Any Vegetable Frank Zappa (Cheesey, Cheesey) (This is a song about vegetables, they keep ya regular They're real good for yo) Call any vegetable Call it by name Call one today When you get off the train Call any vegetable And the chances are good Aw, The vegetable will respond to you (Some people don't go for prunes...I don't know, I've always found that if they...) Call any vegetable Pick up your phone Think of a vegetable Lonely at home Call any vegetable And the chances are good That a vegetable will *respond* to you Rutabaga, Rutabaga, Rutabaga, Rutabaga, Rutabay-y-y-y... (A prune isn't really a vegetable... CABBAGE is a vegetable...) No one will know If you don't want to let them know No one will know 'Less it's you that might tell them so Call and they'll come to you Covered with dew Vegetables dream, Of responding to you Standing there shiny and proud by your side Holding your hand while the neighbors decide Why is a vegetable something to hide |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:42 PM If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between: "If you saw my little backyard, "Wot a pretty spot!" you'd cry, It's a picture on a sunny summer day; Wiv the turnip tops and cabbages wot peoples doesn't buy I makes it on a Sunday look all gay. Yes have no Bananas I've got a luverly bunch of coconuts |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Melissa Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:50 PM Arlo Guthrie's "Me and My Goose" is kind of about eating.. Junk Food Junkie Butter Beans Take an Old Cold Tater Pass the Other Udder |
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Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: FARMER'S SONG (Murray McLauchlan) From: bobad Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:53 PM FARMER'S SONG Murray McLauchlan A A6 A A6 Dusty old farmer out working your fields A A6 E E/F# Hanging down over your tractor wheels E E/F# E E/F# The sun beatin' down turns the red paint to orange E E/F# A A6 And rusty old patches of steel A A6 A A6 There's no farmer songs on that car radio A A6 D Just cowboys, truck drivers and pain Bm A F#m Well this is my way to say thanks for the meal A E A A6 And I hope there's no shortage of rain A A6 A A6 Chorus Straw hats and old dirty hankies ======= A A6 E E/F# Moppin' a face like a shoe E E/F# E E/F# Thanks for the meal; here's a song that is real E E/F# A A6 From a kid from the city to you Repeat chorus The combines gang up, take most of the bread Things just ain't like they used to be Though your kids are out after the American dream And they're workin' in big factories If I come on by when you're out in the sun Can I wave at you just like a friend These days when everyone's taking so much There's somebody giving back in Repeat chorus |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Kent Davis Date: 31 Jan 08 - 09:41 PM How about "Big Rock Candy Mountain"? Sugar is sort of a vegetable, isn't it? On a healthier note, there are "The Cherry Tree" (Child #54), "Lemon Tree", and "Goober Peas". The lyrics are in the Digital Tradition. Kent |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Nancy King Date: 31 Jan 08 - 10:08 PM Heard this one from a friend of mine; don't know who wrote it -- VEGETABLE LOVE Don't you carrot all for me? My heart beets for you. Please tell me you love me. Don't snap my heart in two. Don't turnip your nose at me, or squash my loving lines -- Like a little sweet tomato, you're growing on my vine. Your love's like the sun above, shining on my garden of love. Love me long and love me true. I'd like to share my garden with you. Don't think I'm a pumpkin head, corny as it may sound. Though I get radish in the face, I like having you around. Watercress you every night, endive more to say: Tell me when we cantelope. Lettuce name the day. CHO Watermelon colly feeling, when I'm nut with you. Olive for the time when I can spinach night with you. Apple eve we'd make a lovely pear, my dear, it's true. We don't need mushroom to love, so love me, honeydew. CHO |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: topical tom Date: 31 Jan 08 - 11:24 PM Tom Paxton's "The Pizza That Ate Chicago"? |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: topical tom Date: 31 Jan 08 - 11:41 PM Sorry.Here's the tricky clicky |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: peregrina Date: 01 Feb 08 - 02:37 AM Ralph McTell, Peppers and Tomatoes |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: peregrina Date: 01 Feb 08 - 02:38 AM Stan Graham, The Olive and the Vine |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: melodeonboy Date: 01 Feb 08 - 02:58 AM "I'm going to bring a watermelon to my girl tonight" by the Bonzo Dog Band. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Jim Carroll Date: 01 Feb 08 - 03:30 AM Dowie Dens of Marrow, Turnip Hero Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Sugwash Date: 01 Feb 08 - 03:35 AM Ivor Biggun's 'Cucumber Number' |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: PeadarOfPortsmouth Date: 01 Feb 08 - 12:24 PM Little Bit of Cucumber. Chorus: I like pickled onions, I like piccalilli, Pickled cabbage is all right with a bit of cold meat on a Sunday night, I can go tomatoes, but what I do prefer Is a little bit of cucum, cucum, cucum, a little bit of cucumber. Peter |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: SINSULL Date: 01 Feb 08 - 02:17 PM Inch by Inch Dave Mallet Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (You say tomato/I say tomato) Lemon Tree The Yucky Bug Song |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: GUEST,the button (on somebody else's pooter) Date: 01 Feb 08 - 03:00 PM Greenland Kale Fisheries Tam Lin(ganberry) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Herga Kitty Date: 01 Feb 08 - 03:47 PM Cherry Ripe, Strawberry Fair, the Prune song, Mike Sparks' Potatoes have feelings (not just eyes and peelings), Watercress o (tuppence a basket), poor frozen out gardeners... Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Forsh Date: 01 Feb 08 - 04:30 PM Thanks everyone! Now I am feelin' hungry! I will have fun looking this lot up! Forsh |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Bobert Date: 01 Feb 08 - 04:46 PM I've got two that come to mind...one silly and one not so silly: The silly one is "Peaches" ("movin' to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches") by, yes, "The Presidents of the United States"... Good song, but silly... The other is Stephen Stills song "Johnny's Garden" off the 1st "Manassas" LP... Real nice song... Hope they help... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Geordie-Peorgie Date: 01 Feb 08 - 04:58 PM Yes! We have no bananas! The theme tune from "Watch out! Beadle's a sprout" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Melissa Date: 01 Feb 08 - 05:15 PM Beans in your ears |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Leadfingers Date: 01 Feb 08 - 05:23 PM Most of Adge Cutlers stuff is cider orientated , apart from the Trevor Crozier stuff he rewrote from Dorset to Somerset ! |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Melissa Date: 01 Feb 08 - 06:14 PM My Wife Left Town with a Banana |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: GUEST,wordy Date: 01 Feb 08 - 07:02 PM THE VEGGIE SONG Times are hard, times are tough It's time for change, we've had enough Let me say, there's a way, To improve your every day It's a simple recipe, It suits the way I like to be You know life can be so sweet, When you don't eat meat. Please don't cut that throat for me, I'll eat mushroom fricassee Wheat and corn, you ain't born, Till you've tried some home fried quorn Steamed or stuffed, creamed or puffed Glazed or braised, ain't that enough Veg can be a treat…when you don't eat meat. Mister butcher, spare that lamb, Please don't turn that pig to ham We can solve all farming's ills, If we stick to pasta quills There's no need for blood and murder, Just chomp on this nice bean burger And here's a baby beet…don't eat meat. Boil that rice, oh that's nice, Pancakes you could just eat twice An aubergine, a butter bean, Something green, I feel so clean Mangoes, apples, melons, limes, Add the good fruit of the vines It's all great to eat…..bin the meat Let's let lambs baa and bleat, Don't mince up that udder teat Cows and calves don't eat meat, So why do we, let me repeat There's a simple remedy, So why don't you join with me And life could be so neat Don't eat meat. Harvey Andrews |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: open mike Date: 01 Feb 08 - 07:05 PM i think we have discussed food songs here before..did you look in the search feature? Home Grown Tomatoes by Guy and Susanna Clark Harvest Time by Stephanie Davis Potatoe by Cheryl Wheeler Out in the Country by Greg Brown and he has several others too: Walking the beans, and Canned Goods. there is a recipe song by Lou an Peter Berryman Rosalie Sorrells has a song If you love me, plant a tree for me. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: open mike Date: 01 Feb 08 - 07:39 PM yes, put food in the search box and you will find everything from asparagus to zucchini! |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Jim Carroll Date: 02 Feb 08 - 02:37 AM Beans, Bacon and Gravy Don't be cruel to a vegetabule Numerous broadsides on the potato Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: cptsnapper Date: 02 Feb 08 - 02:40 AM The Riddle Song ( I Gave My Love A Cherry etc. ): Boiled Beef And Carrots: Don't Slay That Potato by Tom Paxton: Chicken Cordon Blues by Steve Goodman, P. Ballan & T. Mandel |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: open mike Date: 02 Feb 08 - 04:02 PM there is a great kids song about a watermelon where they all get to make a juicy slurping sound in the chorus....fun! |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Snuffy Date: 02 Feb 08 - 07:18 PM Wheezy Anna, wheezy Anna, down where the watermelons grow (And they've all got pips in) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: GUEST,Jacqued Date: 03 Feb 08 - 03:10 PM HARD CHEESE OF OLD ENGLAND (A Traditional English Food Song Pre-dating Lymeswold -Les Barker) There's Cheddar and Cheshire and Lancashire too, Leicester's bright orange and Stilton is blue. It waxes so lyrical what can you do – Oh the hard cheese of Old England, In Old England very hard cheese. Derby's got green bits because of the sage, And when it gets older it's kept in its cage. And what does it hum when it reaches this age – Chorus The double Gloucester is twicest as nice, They say double Gloucester there I've said it twice. It's nice in potatoes but nicest in mice, Chorus Those damn foreigners aren't worth a mention, Old Gorgonzola's renowned for its stenchen. His brother Emil wrote novels in French en – Chorus There's Swaledale and Wendslydale, Rutland to add, Shropshire and Cornish you may not have had. It's not bad on salads this ballad's not sad – Chorus My young love said to me my mother won't mind, And my father once liked you for your lack of rind. No cheese greater love for his food than mankind. Chorus 11/ |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Snuffy Date: 03 Feb 08 - 06:50 PM They say double Gloucester is twicest as nice ... Those Edam foreigners aren't worth a mention ... And my father won't slight you for your lack of rind ... |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: The Walrus Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:14 PM My Meatless Day "...I'm thin and pale, all I've had today Is five pound of 'taters, that I had to thieve, A vergitable marrow as long as my sleeve, A jar of pickled onions (you can tell it when I breathe) 'cops it's my meatless day..." W |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Tattie Bogle Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:23 PM In the DT, including a midi: GARDEN SONG (Dave Mallett) Inch by inch, row by row, Gonna make this garden grow, All it takes is a rake and a hoe, And a piece of fertile ground. Inch by inch, row by row, Someone bless these seeds I sow, Someone warm them from below, 'Till the rain comes tumblin' down. Pullin' weeds and pickin' stones, Man is made of dreams and bones, Feel the need to grow my own, 'Cause the time is close at hand. Grain for grain, sun and rain, Find my way in Nature's chain, Tune my body and my brain To the music from the land. Plant your rows straight and long, Temper them with prayer and song, Mother Earth will make you strong If you give her loving care. An old crow watching hungrily From his perch in yonder tree, In my garden I'm as free As that feathered thief up there. Copyright David Mallett Also "Have a banana" by Matt McGinn, to the tune of Hava Nagila |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:24 PM There's a song with a (no pun intended) salsa-ish feel to it called Pineapples, Bananas, and Mangoes which I can hear in my head but can't remember any more of. It was on the radio when I was a kid, and had mariachis and a lot of Latin percussion in it. There's also a song from the Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson musical drama Lost In The Stars called "Who'll Buy" (completely different from the one in Oliver) that starts out "Who'll buy my juicy rutabagas, who'll buy my yellow corn? Who'll buy my ginger and my pepper and tomatoes... (can't really remember, but the next line has GOT to end in "potatoes"). It's meant to be suggestive - you can really hear someone like Etta James singing it. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Snuffy Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:40 PM Bonnie, Do you mean the one from the 50s (samba/rumba?) that went: Mango, papaya, Chestnuts from the fire In my house of straw There is so much more ...... Eat up and drink up And maybe we'll think up The day when we say Preacher man, OK! Can't remember the middle bit, nor who sang it, I'm afraid |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 03 Feb 08 - 08:20 PM No - it's more repetitious, along the lines of I like pineAPPles, baNANas and MANgoes, Pineapples, bananas and mangoes... with the stress on the second syllable of "pineapples" which falls a bit awkwardly. I don't think this song was actually About anything much - maybe that's all I can remember of it because that's all there really was! I prefer yours - Hey - what about the Chiquita Banana song, anyone remember that? I had it emblazoned on one of my schoolbook protective paper covers, which we all had to use, and those four lines have stuck in my mind long after the book's contents fled to the nether regions of oblivion: I'm Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say Bananas give you energy for work and play And the calories count, I am so happy to state, In the medium banana's only 88 ! But I had no tune for it, only these words; so I promptly made one up and then proceeded to drive my mother crazy. When I finally heard the real music it was a sad let-down, monotonous and tame. Mine was much better - |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 04 Feb 08 - 08:00 AM Just re-read Forsh's opening post, and the mention of "farming the land, growing stuff" etc jogged a more serious thought (don't know how serious it needs to get) - What about Woody Guthrie's "Pastures of Plenty"? It's about food, all right: lack of it. The central characters are farmers who can't farm because they've been driven off land turned to useless dust by drought and winds. They then have to spend their lives harvesting food for others to eat, while they earn a pittance and are obliged to keep on moving. It's in the DigiTrad - most relevant food-y verses are: I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes I slept on the ground in the light of the moon On the edge of the city you'll see us and then We come with the dust and we go with the wind California, Arizona, I harvest your crops Then up north to Oregon to gather your hops Dig the beets from your ground Cut the grapes from your vine To set on your table the light sparkling wine |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: George Papavgeris Date: 04 Feb 08 - 09:03 AM Mike Sparks' "A Potato Has Feelings As Well". The music hall song "A Little Bit Of Cucumber" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Rasener Date: 04 Feb 08 - 09:37 AM Crazy Over Vegetables |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Fruit n veg From: Forsh Date: 05 Feb 08 - 08:05 PM Thanks all, I was looking for anything to do with food/growing/farming, preferably something olde & traditional, or from the war/music hall arena. Doing a local Radio thing on 'Folk n Food, with the 'Gardening expert' of the station! Something like bill andersons 'po Folk, would be great from the Amerikies, if you cousins have anything of the like, and A nice Traditional one from the Sandal wearers amongst ye! Thanks to all so far, all great stuff, and I have even uncovered some MP3s of them! :) Dave (Forsh) |
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