What's a pufferbillie / pufferbelly?

Subject: RE: Puffer bellies?
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 03:48 PM

Excellent! That's been a favourite "sing to the kids" song in my family for several generations now; I've always sung "puffer bellies"! The gent you learnt it from sounds fascinating---more please?

Puff, puff, toot, toot---off we go!

Subject: RE: Puffer bellies?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 03:38 PM

Jeepers, Jody, tell us some more about the old fellah you learned it from, please???

Subject: RE: Puffer bellies?
From: 53
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 03:25 PM

i thought that it might be an ovation guitar, its got sorta of a puffer belly. BOB

Subject: Puffer bellies?
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 03:16 PM

I just heard another A U T H O R I T I V E version of " down by the Station". The only other people I've heard sing it right are those I taught (or corrected) and the guy I learned it from, Todd Farnham, 95 years old. He's the guy who gave me the "one of a kind" F J Bacon-Todd Farnham long necked five string banjo that I play. IT WAS MADE IN 1925

For all you purists, it isn't "Buffer Bellies, it's, "PUFF AND BELLER" (or "Puff and Bellow" if you prefer. as in,

"Down by the station early in the morning
See the little Puff 'n Bellers all in a row." O.K.?

Merry Christmas
Jody Gibson (73 years old)