They don't write love songs like (Pig in a Pen)

Subject: They don't write love songs like this
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 03:36 PM

I bought a used Bluegrass compilation CD the other day. I have always enjoyed Ralph Stanley and/or The Stanley Brothers. This CD included "Pig In A Pen" (search Piginpen on the DT). I was floored by this song, I just can't imagine a better love song than:

I've got a pig at home in a pen, corn to raise him on, all I need is a pretty little girl, to feed him when I'm gone.

In all seriousness, this is a great bluegrass song, featuring Ralph playing brilliantly, the band kicking, the harmonies perfect. But I can't help but think that this may be the worst pick up line in history.

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: Magpie
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 03:41 PM

Hi there Steve.

Well, as far as pick up lines go, there ARE worse. Believe ne, I've heard a few! Like: " Excuse me, but I'd like to know if you've got freckls on your beasts?" !!!!!

Magpie

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: DonMeixner
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 04:06 PM

Steve,

Sounds like "Shadey Grove" to me. Does Stanley say anything about a Barlow knife?

Don

Subject: Lyr Add: PIG IN A PEN (from Stanley Brothers)
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 04:18 PM

Don,

Come to think of it, the tune is very similar to Shady Grove, but played faster than any version I've heard. I'm not that familiar with the verses of Shady Grove, but I've copied the lyrics over from DT, I'm not a BlueClicky Thing guy.


PIG IN A PEN
(Stanley Brothers?)

I got a pig at home in a pen, corn to feed 'im on
All I need is a pretty little girl to feed 'im when I'm gone;

Goin' on the mountain to sow a little cane
Raise a barrel of Sorghum to sweeten old Liza Jane;

*When she sees me comin', she wrings her hands and cries
Yonder comes the sweetest boy that ever lived or died;

*Now when she sees me leavin', she wrings her hands and cries
Yonder goes the meanest boy that ever lived or died;

Black cloud's a-risin', surest sign of rain
Get the old grey bonnet on Little Liza Jane;

Yonder comes that gal of mine, how you think I know
Can tell by that Gingham gown hangin' down so low;

Bake them biscuits lady, bake 'em good 'n brown
When you get them biscuits baked, we're Alabamy bound.


*Not on original recording.
Recorded by the Stanley Brothers
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Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 04:32 PM

Magpie,

I am guessing that beasts is a typo. I've always been amazed by how rude my fellow males can be.

I'm considering trying the Pig In a Pen line. It would have to get some kind of a response, especially in downtown Toronto.

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: Vixen
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 04:51 PM

I've always liked "pig in a pen" for a love song, and the version by Ricky Skaggs on Ancient Tones is so fast as to be out of control...any man who sings love songs at that speed makes me doubt his...well, I'll stop now.

Another good line, which I've humming all day for some reason is from a song of which I can recall neither the title nor the artist...

"If your heart
has got a mind to,
you can love someone like me"

V

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 05:14 PM

Just a little bit of thread drift concerning pickup lines, we had a huge thread on that sometime this summer. There were some real doozies on there!

How about that old one, I think it was used in a movie with a Mountie, hmmmmm, sounds like a good title "Movie With A Mountie: read it any way ya want!", anyway the only line I can remember was kind of yodely and went,

"I'll be calling you, oo, oo, oo-oo-oo"

kat

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: JedMarum
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 05:15 PM

Ya think that freckles on breasts query is rude? Maybe I better stop askin' ...

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 08 Oct 99 - 10:04 AM

Liam,

Yes I do. I don't think I'm a prude, but I was raised to respect women and people in general. I would never ask a woman a question that would upset me if someone were to ask my sister.

I get a sense your post was in jest, so I think that you'll agree when I say I am constantly amazed at how witty some guys think they are being with lines like these and the ones int the post that Kat mentioned.

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 08 Oct 99 - 02:20 PM

I will answer true-oo-oo-oo-oo: Kat, that's "Indian Love Call" by Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, made famous in the 1936 hit movie Rose Marie by Nelson Eddy as the Mountie and Jeannette MacDonald as the prima donna.

"Singing 'Indian Love Call,' Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are in a class of their own; the wholesome, hearty fakery of it is matchless. This is one of the liveliest and most popular of their kitschfests."

- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies

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Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 08 Oct 99 - 02:22 PM

Blue-clicky-thing failure! Try this:

From http://members.aol.com/movieboy2/rose36.html.

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Oct 99 - 04:19 PM

Thanks, Jerry. What a kick!

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: Magpie
Date: 08 Oct 99 - 04:33 PM

Yes Steve, it was supposed to be BREASTS. And I don't have FRECKLES on them either.

Magpie

Subject: RE: They don't write love songs like this
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 08 Oct 99 - 05:40 PM

The "come over and feed my pigs" line was the one that finally worked in the Percy French song "The Dear Little Girl." I used to have a Percy French song book but in a moment of ignorance or insanity I threw it away, or maybe just stuffed it into a box with my Kingston Trio songbooks. --seed