05 Jan 00 - 08:32 PM (#158677) Subject: Lyr Add: COUNTRY HAM AND RED GRAVY (Dave Macon) From: Stewie This was asked for in another thread. It is my attempt at a transcription. It was a real stinker to work on - worse even than trying to decipher some of Charlie Poole's mutterings. I believe most of it is in the ballpark and I have put square brackets around lines and words I am uncertain about. I look forward to suggested corrections. There are lots of Uncle Dave's songs that are worthy of a place in the DT. Stewie. COUNTRY HAM AND RED GRAVY
Talk about your old cow meat
Oh how them darkies yell(ed)
[Rich] folk gone to market out
Oh how them [people] yelled
Talk about your fried chicken
Oh how them [folks] did yell
Talk about your red snapper fish
Oh how them [folks] did yell
Talk about your fried chicken
Oh how them darkies yell(ed)
Of all the meat I ever eat
Oh how them folks did yell Source: Uncle Dave Macon 'Country Ham and Red Gravy' Recorded 24 January 1938. Reissued on Uncle Dave Macon 'Travelin' Down the Road' County CCS-CD-115. |
07 Jan 00 - 08:34 AM (#159487) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Country Ham and Red Gravy From: dan mcguire Stewie- thanks for the lyrics. I'm getting a little hard of hearing and couldn't figure 'em out. Dan |
30 Aug 11 - 04:24 PM (#3215416) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Country Ham and Red Gravy (Dave Macon) From: GUEST,Hayseed "Come for the see them people down there." He liked to ass out and said "shya." I've heard old men around here use it before. "Rich folk go to the market house." I'm going back to the farmer's smokehouse or farm smokehouse either. The smokehouse was where all the pig was processed. "Ain't gwine (or gonna) tell ya no sham." I think it's funny that you had problems with this one, it's one of the easiest to understand for me. Now parts of Pray for the Lights to Go Out is real incomprehensible, he must've been really plastered. Punctuation added by a JoeClone. |
17 Feb 18 - 05:02 PM (#3906361) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Country Ham and Red Gravy (Dave Macon) From: GUEST,Helen Cameron My father used to sing this but only knew a few lines. And the words were slightly different It began with "There was a happy land, far, far away, where there was bread and cheese, four times a day. The refrain, as far as he knew it, was "Hark how the boarders yell, when they hear the dinner bell, Hark how the boarders yell, far, far away." I bet it's the same song, with a few changes. |