Lyr Req: 'If you don't like my lemons, honey...'

Subject: need help to locate words to song for elderly
From: Katherine
Date: 25 Sep 98 - 09:06 PM

Desperately trying to find words for an elderly woman I volunteer for. She said her husband (dead 27 years) sang a song about if you don't like my lemons honey, why are you shaking my tree !!! This is absolutely all I know, but it would mean a lot to her. Can anyone help me? Thanks and I would gladly pay for a copy fo the words. Regards, Katherine

Subject: RE: need help to locate words to song for elderly
From: Chet W.
Date: 25 Sep 98 - 09:55 PM

There's a verse from "Sittin' on Top of the World" (click here) by Sam Chatman (and recorded by everybody) that goes "Don't like my peaches, Don't shake my tree, Get out of my orchard, Let my peaches be." If that's it I'll post the rest of the words.

Chet W.

Subject: RE: need help to locate words to song for elderly
From: Pete Peterson
Date: 25 Sep 98 - 11:58 PM

could it be Hesitation Blues (click here), a Charlie Poole hit?

I was born in England, raised in Tennessee
If you don't like my peaches stop shakin' my tree
Oh baby how long will I have to wait
O can I get you now, or must I hesitate?!

(one of about six verses)

Subject: RE: need help to locate words to song for elderly
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 01:22 PM

Why do I think of this as a Led Zeppelin song?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T MASH MY DIGGER SO DEEP
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 02:25 PM

"If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree is an old saying in the South," and appears in several songs. See "Screening the Blues," by Paul Oliver, p. 217.
Perhaps the best known is the old blues by Bo Carter. The "Bo" Chatmon recording I believe has been re-issued in a set by Yazoo.


DON'T MASH MY DIGGER SO DEEP
As recorded by Bo Carter, 1936.

Baby, an' if you don't like my peaches, baby, please don't you touch my tree.
Baby, an' if you don't love my peaches, baby, please don't touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger down so deep.

Says when I get to use my digger, I use it in diff'rent ways.
I dig potatoes for these women both night and day.
And if you don't love my peaches, baby, please don't touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger down so deep.

Says, when I get to use my digger, I use it just like I should.
The women all cryin': "Your digger, you know, it diggin' feel so good."
If you don't love my peaches, baby, don't you touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger down so deep.

Oh, baby, don't mash it so deep!

Says, when I get to use my digger, I use the side an' up an' down.
I can dig your potatoes better'n any man in this town.
And if you don't love my peaches, baby, please don't touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger down so deep.

Sometime it takes three inches to dig potatoes; sometime it takes fo'.
When I find 'em deep, you know I mash it down some mo'.
And if you don't love my peaches, baby, don't you touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger so deep.


Lyrics might not be completely accurate. Sung by Armenter "Bo" Chatmon, 1936, on "Banana in Your Fruit Basket," Yazoo 1064.
Don't Mash My Digger So Deep

Subject: RE: need help to locate words to song for elderly
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 02:29 PM

Another song by Bo Carter was "Squeeze Your Lemon."

The title of this thread fits only since Viagra.

Subject: RE: need help to locate words to song for elderly
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 02:05 AM

lets hope the old lady in question did like his lemons and shook his tree frequently