Lyr Req: Food songs

Subject: Food songs
From: GUEST,Jan Persson
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 07:08 AM

Hi, I am teaching six year olds and running a module on food. Grateful for any songs featuring food and health. Thanks a million.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: mooman
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 07:26 AM

One that springs to mind immediately is "One Meatball" recorded by, amongst others, Josh White and Ry Cooder. If you do a search on the title in the DigiTrad Lyrics box you will get the words.

I'm sure a search on "food" or particular items of food may well reveal many other useful examples.

All the best

mooman

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 09:03 AM

Let's see if this works (the last time I tried, it didn't)Food Songs in the DT....Should be a listing of titles that are links.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 02:28 PM

Don't see Michael Cooney's Watermellon Song or any of the Fish Finger songs on the DT Food Song List.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 02:56 PM

Shortnin' Bread
Shoe Fly Pie
Who Threw The Overalls In Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?" (you can cover sanitation, too)

Subject: Lyr Add: JOHNNY SAUCEP'N^^
From: harpmolly
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 03:01 PM

How about "JOHNNY SAUCEP'N" by Moxy Fruvous? :D

Well he was just some Johnny Saucep'n when he walked into that kitchen
And the chef picked up the order and put down his Solzhenitysen
He said "make yourself at home, boy, I just prewarmed all the griddles
Ya got 20 minutes, starting now, to create some gourmet vittles"

Basil endive parmesan shrimp live
Lobster hamster worchester muenster
Caviar radiccio snow pea scampi
Roquefort meat squirt blue beef red alert
Pork hocs side flank cantaloupe sheep shanks
Provolone flatbread goat's head soup
Gruyere cheese angelhair please
And a vichyssoise and a cabbage and a crawfish claws.

Sure he was just some Johnny Saucep'n when he walked into that kitchen
But his genius with the foodstuffs got the old chef's tastebuds itchin'
Johnny Saucep'n bought the restaurant and the chef came all unglued
There will always be a lineup for that strange and wonderful food.

Basil endive parmesan shrimp live
Lobster hamster worchester muenster
Caviar radiccio snow pea scampi
Roquefort meat squirt blue beef red alert
Pork hocs side flanks cantaloupe sheep shanks
Provolone flatbread goat's head soup
Gruyere cheese angelhair please
And a vichyssoise and a cabbage and a crawfish claws.

Wheeee! ;)

M

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 03:22 PM

Mollificent - the tune????

"Yes. We HAve No Bananas"


What is the song the Woodchucks sing about "Momma frying everything? Or was it Roger in Baltimore? Perfect for your needs - funny and a low cholesteral (SP?) message.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: GUEST,Frogmore
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 03:37 PM

See if you can find some of my favorites: MUNCHIN' ON A CHEESECAKE - Louis Armstrong, EVERYBODY EATS WHEN THEY COME TO MY HOUSE - Cab Callaway, SOMEONE POURED KETCHUP ON MY ICE CREAM - The Mills Bros. There are more but I don't have the time now.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 05:30 PM

Sinsull, are you sure you don't mean the old country hit Mama Fries? :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 05:36 PM

There was a LONG thread on this topic a while back, called (naturally) food songs. It contains some lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 05:36 PM

John McCutcheon does a Watermelon Song, is that the same as Cooney's? John's starts:
W-A-TER,MELON, What's that spell? (letters are spoken)
Watermelon!!
(spit seeds out here, right into the mic).......

I did a search for Willy the Spider on Google with the phrase children's songs........was sent to a LOT of pages with wonderful songs, and lots of food songs on each page. You might try that. Takes a little effort, but......

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 06:33 PM

Beans, Bacon and Gravy" It's set in 1931, the singer works for the county, maintaining the county roads, but all he can afford is the eponymous fare. The chorus goes as follows:

Oh, those beans, bacon and gravy
They almost drive me crazy!
I eat them till I see them in my dreams.
When I wake up in the mornnin'
And another day is dawnin'
I know I'll have another mess of beans!

I'll have to check whether it's in the DT.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 06:37 PM

Yes, it's there, with tune.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 07:52 PM

Sorcha, that's the same Watermellon Song; kids of all ages love it!

Come to think of it, I don't think anyone has mentioned Down at the Barnyard Dance, Sweeney Todd the Barbor, or Dundebeck's Machine. All are great food songs although the last two may be too rich for some tastes.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: toadfrog
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 08:41 PM

When I was in grade school, they taught us:

I used to eat my milk and rice
And orange juice too, 'cause I thought they were nice!
But now I eat my food, as you see,
For Vitamin A and for Vitamin B.

It went on about C and D, but I can't recall the rest.

Yes, you can find Beans, bacon & gravy in the DT. It might be a bit like work, explaining the song to small children.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: celticblues5
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 10:25 PM

"Save the Bones for Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat)" [of course, this would clash with the grammar lesson ;-)]

Barry Louis Polisar's ditty, written when people kept asking him, well, if he didn't eat meat, what DID he eat? - "I Eat Kids."

[Or also his "He Eats Asparagus, Why Can't You Be That Way?" or "My Dentist is an Awfully Nice Man" (he fills their teeth with candy and rinses out their mouths with chocolate) or "They Said, 'Eat the Broccoli'" or "Sally Eats Shoelaces, Straw, and String" or "Don't Eat the Food that is Sitting on Your Plate" or "But I Still Don't Like Asparagus." His website is - www.barrylou.com]
"Come On-a My House (I'm Gonna Give You Candy)"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 10:37 PM

Oh, golly gee......just remembered "Jack Sprat shall eat no fat, and she shall eat no lean".......this is bad CRS, friends, and it didn't show up on any site I was at.......uh oh.
Oats, Peas Beans and Barley Grow didn't show up either.
A couple more:
Beans, Beans The Musical Meal
Peanut Butter (heard it by John McCutcheon)
(peanut butter, I love peanut butter)
Earlier I thought of a couple more that I didn't see on the Google search, but I can't think of them now. Maybe later...........(are we having fun with this?)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Mudlark
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 01:10 AM

Not exactly a children's song, maybe, but I have always loved Java Jive...also We Always Cook With Honey, and for snack food lovers...There was an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: alison
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 01:25 AM

on top of spaghetti

you get spaghetti, cheese and meatballs all in the first 2 lines....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 09:43 AM

There's also that old Country song "I Like Molasses": my favorite verse ran:

I like molasses, good old country sorghum,
I eats it in the winter and the fall;
In the summer it gets so full of flies,
It resembles raisin pies,
That's the way I like it best of all!

Ask Kendall for the rest of the verses.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 10:48 AM

Food Glorious Food (from the musical Oliver which Bert mentioned in the thread Jim linked to above)

The Candyman --- not sure of the name. (Weren't there several songs from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?)

I Wish I Were an Oscar Meyer Weiner --- from the commercial.

Down on MacConachy (Sp?) Square --- from the musical Brigadoon.

Squirrel Heads and Gravy --- song circulating in the dulcimer groups, but don't know of any words.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Grab
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 11:04 AM

Greeeen and yellow,
Greeenn and yellow,
Oh mother be quick I'm going to be sick
And I'll lay me down to die.

Full words on this link. Another classic song from my childhood...

Graham.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Food songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 12:03 PM

Love them eels, Graham, but there's not so bad if you keep 'em in the fridge.