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Lyr Req: Hot Corn Cold Corn

02 Jun 00 - 12:19 AM (#237260)
Subject: hot corn cold corn bring along .......
From: GUEST,ruby

i heard this song and licked it ,anyone got lyrics or chords? thanx


02 Jun 00 - 12:32 AM (#237267)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: Pene Azul

Are you looking for "The Irish Jubilee"? Here are the lyrics in the DT.

PA


02 Jun 00 - 12:42 AM (#237272)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: GUEST,ruby

no i wasnt thanx anyway its an old bluegrass tune somthin like hot corn cold corn bring along a demijohn oh lord.... etc


02 Jun 00 - 01:25 AM (#237286)
Subject: Lyr Add: HOT CORN, COLD CORN
From: Pene Azul

Got it from Gary's Patio.

HOT CORN, COLD CORN

(Chorus) Hot corn, cold corn, bring along a demijohn
Hot corn, cold corn, bring along a demijohn
Hot corn, cold corn, bring along a demijohn
Fare thee well, uncle Bill, see you in the morning, yes sir

1. Well it's upstairs downstairs down in the kitchen
Upstairs downstairs down in the kitchen
Upstairs downstairs down in the kitchen
See uncle Bill just a-raring and pitching, yes sir

Chorus:

2. Well it's old aunt Peggy won't you fill 'em up again
Old aunt Peggy won't you fill 'em up again
Old aunt Peggy won't you fill 'em up again
Ain't had a drink since I don't know when, yes sir

Chorus:

3. Well yonder comes the preacher and the children are a-crying
Yonder comes the preacher and the children are a-crying
Yonder comes the preacher and the children are a-crying
Chickens are a-hollering and toenails a-flying, yes sir

Chorus:


02 Jun 00 - 11:05 AM (#237392)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: DADGBE

A little folk processing here: we sing the last line of verse 1;
"See uncle Bill just a-grousing and a-bitching, yes sir."


02 Jun 00 - 01:40 PM (#237484)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson at work

Whenever I get togther with friends and sing this we ahve to agree in advance on the last line of the chorus. The one I know is
Fare the well, my pretty girl, I'll see you in the morning

Who could ever forget the Holy Modal Rounders last verse
Saw uncle Tom with bald-hdeaded Sally
Saw Mary coming and he jumped back in the alley
Old Aunt Mary she's-a-built for speed
she's got everything that our uncle Tom needs, YES SIR


02 Jun 00 - 04:13 PM (#237543)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: Gypsy

You haven't lived until you've heard David Grisman and David Garcia do this...have the tape. WONDERFUL!


02 Jun 00 - 10:48 PM (#237742)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: Jacob B

That's not the way I remember the Holy Modal Rounder's version:

Uncle Tom talking to Long Tall Sally
He saw Aunt Mary, and he jumped back in the alley
Long Tall Sally, she's built for speed
She's got everything that your Uncle Tom needs
Yes sir!


03 Jun 00 - 09:03 AM (#237830)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: Pinetop Slim

Little Richard and, bless my white bucks, Pat Boone recorded pretty much those same lyrics as part of "Long Tall Sally" around 1957. It was a good song, but no "Tutti Frutti."


10 Apr 01 - 11:24 AM (#437359)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes

All I need to make me happy Two little boys a-calling me pappy One named Bill, one named Davy Like their biscuits sopped in gravy Yes Sir!


10 Apr 01 - 11:31 AM (#437365)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: kendall

I thought that was...hot corn cold corn bring along a "porta John"


10 Apr 01 - 05:14 PM (#437613)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: hot corn cold corn bring along .....
From: Chicken Charlie

Kendall--"Porta-John?" That's a great Maundegreen.

Now for seriousness. Leadbelly did this also; in Southern dialect (Black or Cracker matters not; I'm a Cracker descendant so I can say that) demijohn becomes "Jimmie-John." Leadbelly also sort of "fractured" the lyrics. When he got to the verse Al quoted for us, he sang it:

Two little boys they call me Papa;
One named "Sop" and the other named "Gravy."
Stand around, stand around the Jimmie-John (x3 or x4 or x till you get tired.)

Green corn, gwine tell Polly.
Green corn, come along Cholly. etc.

And that leads to the standard Cracker sop/gravy joke. Several of these things were told to me as if they really happened to relatives and only later did I discover (college education is broadening) that these were like rural urban-legends. Anyway, poor hillbilly goes to slightly more well-to-do home for dinner; comes back; parents or somebody asks how it went. Says, "Oh, twern't nothin'. They had somethin' they called "GRAY-VYE," but it twern't nothin' but common sop." Chickaboom!

Someday I might visit Kings County, Alabama, and see for myself.

Chicken Charlie