Moonshine songs

Subject: RE: Moonshine songs
From: GUEST,Cruiseinbob
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 02:59 PM

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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 03:48 PM

I wrote a few on the subject myself, one of which was my biggest hit that went tinfoil with a bullet:

                   8 O'CLOCK AND MABOU

      I LEFT MY HOME AT EIGHT O'CLOCK, AS SOBER AS COULD BE
      HEADING INTO MABOU TO BUY A POUND OF TEA
      TOMMY FRASER MET ME AS I WALKED ALONG THE ROAD
      HE SAID " JUMP UP INTO THE CAB ,WE'RE HEADING TO GLENCOE."

                                  (CHORUS)
    BETWEEN 8 O'CLOCK AND MABOU I MUST HAVE LOST MY WAY
    I DIDN'T MAKE IT HOME THAT NIGHT OR FOR ANOTHER DAY
    BETWEEN 8 O'CLOCK AND MABOU I WENT UPON A SPREE
    AND IF THERE'S MOONSHINE IN THE JUG THEN PASS IT ON TO ME


    TOMMY DROVE THE OLD FORD LIKE A DEMON THROUGH THE RUTS
      POTHOLES BANGING ON THE SPRINGS, A ROOSTER TAIL OF DUST
      BUT HE PULLED HER OVER WHEN WE GOT TO JOE MAC LEAN'S
      A GALLON JUG OF MOONSHINE WAS OUR PURCHASE THERE THAT DAY

                                    (CHORUS)

      WE HEADED INTO MABOU AND WE WENT TO LITTLE NEIL'S
      AND HE TOOK DOWN HIS FIDDLE FOR TO PLAY SOME JIGS AND REELS
      SOON THE NEIGHBORS GATHERED AND A CEILIDH'S UNDER WAY
      AND THEN WE DIDN'T GIVE A DAMN IF IT WAS NIGHT OR DAY

                                     (CHORUS)

       WHEN I FINALLY MADE IT HOME MY WIFE WAS AT THE DOOR
       GIVING ME A LECTURE LIKE I NEVER HAD BEFORE
       SHE ASKED ME WHERE THE HELL I'D BEEN AND WHAT I HAD TO SAY
      "BETWEEN 8 O'CLOCK AND MABOU I MUST HAVE LOST MY WAY."

                                     (CHORUS) (c)1999                                                                  A.McLean
    Note: I sing it in D and the air is close enough to Wabash Cannonball to give folks a good idea of the song. Note that Mabou is a village in Cape Breton that was home to The Rankin Family and John Allen Cameron as well as many other great musicians and it continues to produce more and more.
                Sandy

Subject: Lyr Add: MOUNTAIN DEW BLUES (Dick Hartman...)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Oct 19 - 02:24 PM

You can hear this recording at YouTube.


MOUNTAIN DEW BLUES [a talking blues]
As recorded by Dick Hartman’s Tennessee Ramblers, with Fred “Happy” Morris, vocalist, 1935. (Bluebird B-6105-A)

1. Now, I went up in the mountains t' take a little rest.
I thought I'd be sporty, so I wore my vest.
Got a hold of a jug and I took a long pull.
The first thing I knew I was plumb full.
I was fallin' around.
Couldn't walk straight.
Said I was drunk.

2. Now if you go t'the mountains, I'll tell ya what to do:
Drink apple cider; lay off o' mountain dew.
There may be gold in them thar hills,
But in that jug, boy, there's headache an' chills.
It'll make ya right nervous.
You'll see little monkeys.
Then you'll know you're drunk.

3. Well, it took me ten days to recuperate,
So I got drunk again; I met my fate.
You could tell by 'er look she was past sixteen.
She's a big fat woman and awfully mean.
She's a grass widow.
Had nine kids.
Got a mother-in-law too.

4. Now, I'm just a city dude a-livin' out o' town.
Ev'rybody knows there's moonshine around(?).
I make the beer an' I drink the slop.
I got nine little orphans call me pop.
I'm patriotic.
Raisin' soldiers,
Red Cross nurses.

5. Now when I'm a-drinkin', I get right mean.
I feed my kids fat meat while I eat the lean.
I feed the old woman on grits an' slaw.
I pour castor oil down my mother-in-law.
She's a-gettin' old.
Kind o' rusty.
She'll never get in a hurry.

6. But she has my sympathy when I'm sober,
'Cause she hasn't got a man to rub her all over.
She's got rheumatiz' up an' down 'er back.
Caught(?) a snipe-hunt, she's a-holdin' the sack
On Decatur Street
One Sat'day night.
She must 'a' been crazy.

7. When I educate my kids an' put 'em all to work,
I'm havin' 'em protect me against fever an'...(?).
When I'm old and my feet gets cold,
I expect 'em to feed me body an' soul.
I'm ambitious,
Independent,
Lookin' ahead.

8. Now, for a long, long time, I jumped my board.
I saved my money an' I bought me a Ford.
Paint was bright and the tires was good,
But, oh boy, under that hood!
Such rattlin'!
Pumpin' oil,
Radiator leakin'.

9. Now, down in the valley on my knees,
I had an old hound; he was full o' fleas,
Half on him and half on me.
If you know how to scratch, just come an' help me.
Such scratchin'!
Fightin' fleas.
Want to buy a dog?

10. Now, my brother-in-law, he carries the mail
When he's sober, not in jail.
Got a hook nose and a freckled face.
He wears pink shirts trimmed in lace.
He's kind o' sissy.
Thinks he's pretty.
Full o' mud.

11. Now I sold some taters in Atlanta Sat'day night.
I bought me some booze; I got pretty tight.
Got in a fight an' landed in jail.
Didn't have nobody to go my bail.
They give me thirty days.
Was a mean ol' judge.
I think it was a frame-up.

12. Now, I'm free an' white in the prime o' life.
I b'lieve in the union, me an' my wife.
You at the high-priced comp'ny, NRA,
Hopin' mister Roosevelt inflate our pay.
Shorter workin' hours.
More money.
Better liquor to drink.

13. Now, I just got a letter from from the grand ...(?),
Signed my the monkeys in the Cannon crew(?).
Says Mister Candler beat Atlanta time(?)
Unless each citizen sends in a dime.
Baboons ravin'.
Lions roarin'.
Such a noise!

14. Now, I went out a-huntiin' the other night.
I got scared and I lost my light.
Dogs treed somethin' down in the flat.
I thought it was a possum but it's a pretty little cat.
I had to leave home.
My wife quit me.
Had to bury my clo'es.
Ain't it a pity!
It was the wrong kind of a kitty.

Subject: RE: Moonshine songs
From: Mo the caller
Date: 07 Oct 19 - 06:39 AM

There's a line in The Frost is All Over, which I was told referred to illegal brewing - 'what will we do if the kettle boils over' (because the steam might be noticed)

Subject: RE: Moonshine songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Oct 19 - 06:12 PM

Darling Corey